fiber
English
Alternative forms
- fibre (chiefly British)
Etymology
From French fibre, from Old French, from Latin fibra
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfaɪ.bɚ/
Audio (US) (file)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfaɪ.bə/
- Rhymes: -aɪbə(r)
Noun
fiber (countable and uncountable, plural fibers) (US)
- (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.
- (uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.
- The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.
- (textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
- Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.
- Dietary fiber.
- Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber
- (figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.
- The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.
- (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
- Under this map, any two values in the fiber 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.
Derived terms
Translations
fibre — see fibre
Danish
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfi.ber/, [ˈfɪ.bɛr]
Declension
Second declension, 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 |
Derived terms
- fibrīnus
References
- fiber in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
fiber m (definite singular fiberen, indefinite plural fibere or fibre or fibrer, definite plural fiberne or fibrene)
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Derived terms
Swedish
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