fiber

English

Alternative forms

• fibre (chiefly British)

Etymology

From French fibre, from Old French fibre, from Latin fibra.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪ.bɚ/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪ.bə/
• Rhymes: -aɪbə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: fi·ber

Noun

fiber (countable and uncountable, plural fibers) (American spelling)

1. (countable) A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.

   The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe.

2. (uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.

   The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.

3. (textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.

   Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.

4. Dietary fiber.

   Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber.

5. (figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.

   The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.

6. (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.

   Holonyms: bundle, fiber bundle

   Meronym: germ

   Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π.

7. (category theory) The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
8. (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
   • 2008, Joe Duffy, Concurrent Programming on Windows, Pearson Education, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     We've seen how to create a new fiber and convert the current thread into a fiber (which continues to run after the conversion), but we have yet to focus on how to schedule a new fiber onto the current thread.

9. A long tubular cell found in muscle tissue; myocyte.

Derived terms

• dietary fiber
• fiberboard
• fiber bundle
• fibered
• fiberglass
• fiberize
• fiber optics
• fiberscope
• fibril, fibrilar
• fibrin, fibrinous
• fibrinogen
• fibrinolysin
• fibroblast
• fibrocyte
• fibroid
• fibroma
• fibrosis
• fibrositis
• fibrous
• fibrovascular
• microfiber
• moral fiber
• natural fiber
• synthetic fiber

 

Translations

fibre — see fibre

Anagrams

• FBIer, brief, fibre

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Danish

Noun

fiber c (definite singular fiberen, indefinite plural fibre, definite plural fibrene)

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus. Doublet of beber.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ber/, [ˈfɪbɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ber/, [ˈfiːber]

Noun

fiber m (genitive fibrī); second declension

1. beaver

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fiber	fibrī
Genitive	fibrī	fibrōrum
Dative	fibrō	fibrīs
Accusative	fibrum	fibrōs
Ablative	fibrō	fibrīs
Vocative	fiber	fibrī

Synonyms

• castor (more common), beber (Late Latin)

Derived terms

• fibrīnus

References

• “fiber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin fibra (“fiber, filament”), possibly from *fidber or *findber, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”).

Noun

fiber m (definite singular fiberen, indefinite plural fibere or fibre or fibrer, definite plural fiberne or fibrene)

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

Derived terms

Terms derived from fiber

• fiberglass
• fiberoptisk
• fiberrik

• glassfiber
• karbonfiber

• kostfiber
• naturfiber

References

• “fiber” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

fiber m (definite singular fiberen, indefinite plural fibrar, definite plural fibrane)

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

Derived terms

• fiberoptisk
• fiberrik
• karbonfiber
• naturfiber

References

• “fiber” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Swedish

Noun

fiber c

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

Declension

Declension of fiber
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	fiber	fibern	fibrer	fibrerna
Genitive	fibers	fiberns	fibrers	fibrernas