fiber

Alternative forms

• fibre (chiefly British)

Etymology

From French fibre, from Old French, from Latin fibra

Pronunciation

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

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪ.bə/
• Rhymes: -aɪbə(r)

Noun

fiber (countable and uncountable, plural fibers) (US)

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.

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

7. (category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
8. (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.

Anagrams

• FBIer, brief, fibre

Noun

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

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ber/, [ˈfɪ.bɛr]

Noun

fiber m (genitive fibrī); second declension

1. beaver

References

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

Noun

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

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

References

• “fiber” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Noun

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

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

References

• “fiber” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Noun

fiber c (definite singular fibern, indefinite plural fibrer, definite plural fibrerna)

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)