FIBER

Fiber

Fiber or fibre is a rope or string used as a component of composite materials, or matted into sheets to make products such as paper or felt. Fibers are often used in the manufacture of other materials. The strongest engineering materials are generally made as fibers, for example carbon fiber and Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene.

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fiber

Noun

  1. 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. A material in the form of fibers.
    The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.
  3. 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. Moral strength and resolve.
    The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.
  6. 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. A kind of lightweight thread of execution.


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