fibre
See also: fibré
English
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Alternative forms
edit- fiber (US)
Etymology
editFrom French fibre, from Old French, from Latin fibra.
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfaɪ.bə(ɹ)/
Audio (General Australian): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪbə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: fi‧bre
Noun
editfibre (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.
- (cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
- Hyponyms: axon, myocyte, muscle fibre, nerve fibre
- 1892, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, edited by F. G. Heathcote, Elementary Text-book of Zoology:
- It is the deeper parts of such cells which give rise to delicate muscular fibres or networks of fibres, while the superficially placed body of the cell myoblast), the part which produces the above, performs other functions, and usually bears a cilium.
Derived terms
edit- carbon fibre
- dark fibre
- dietary fibre
- fibreboard
- fibre bundle
- fibre cement
- fibre-faced
- fibreglass
- fibre-optic
- fibre optic
- fibre optics
- fibre-optics
- fibre-reinforced plastic
- fibrescope
- fibrin
- fibrise, fibrize
- fibrous
- hollow-fibre
- microfibre
- milk fibre
- moral fibre
- muscle fibre
- muscle fibre
- natural fibre
- nerve fibre
- nerve fibre
- optical fibre
- Purkinje fibre
- Seifert fibre space
- synthetic fibre
- with every fibre of one's being
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editTranslations
editsingle elongated piece of material
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material in the form of fibres
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dietary fibre — see dietary fibre
moral strength and reserve
mathematics: preimage of a given point in the range of a map
long tubular cell found in bodily tissue
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Anagrams
editDanish
editNoun
editfibre c pl
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French fibre, borrowed from Latin fibra.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfibre f (plural fibres)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- → Persian: فیبر (fibr)
Further reading
edit- “fibre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editPronunciation
editNoun
editfibre f pl
Norwegian Bokmål
editAlternative forms
editNoun
editfibre m pl
Romanian
editPronunciation
editNoun
editfibre f
- inflection of fibră:
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