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{{senseid|en|single elongated piece of material}}{{lb|en|countable}} A single piece of a given material, [[elongate]]d and roughly round in cross-section, often [[twist]]ed with other fibres to form [[thread]]. |
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# {{senseid|en|material in the form of fibres}}{{lb|en|uncountable}} Material in the form of fibres. |
# {{senseid|en|material in the form of fibres}}{{lb|en|uncountable}} Material in the form of fibres. |
Revision as of 17:42, 26 June 2022
See also: fibré
English
Alternative forms
- fiber (US)
Etymology
From French fibre, from Old French, from Latin fibra.
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪbə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: fi‧bre
Noun
fibre (countable and uncountable, plural fibres) (British, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa spellings)
- (countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.
- The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe.
- (uncountable) Material in the form of fibres.
- The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough fibre.
- Dietary fibre.
- Fresh vegetables are a good source of fibre.
- Moral strength and resolve.
- 1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 2, in Lord Jim:
- He was gentlemanly, steady, tractable, with a thorough knowledge of his duties; and in time, when yet very young, he became chief mate of a fine ship, without ever having been tested by those events of the sea that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance and the secret truth of his pretences, not only to others but also to himself.
- The ordeal was a test of everyone’s fibre.
- (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
- Under this map, any two values in the fibre of a given point on the circle differ by 2π
- (category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
- (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
- A long tubular cell found in muscle tissue; myocyte.
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Translations
single elongated piece of material
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material in the form of fibres
dietary fibre — see dietary fibre
moral strength and reserve
mathematics: preimage of a given point in the range of a map
muscle fiber
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Anagrams
Danish
Noun
fibre c pl
French
Etymology
From Old French fibre, borrowed from Latin fibra.
Pronunciation
Noun
fibre f (plural fibres)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “fibre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
fibre f pl
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Noun
fibre m pl
Romanian
Pronunciation
Noun
fibre f
- inflection of fibră:
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