fiber

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fiber (disambiguation)

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• fibre (non-US)

Etymology

From French fibre, from Old French fibre, from Latin fibra.

Pronunciation

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

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪ.bə/
• Rhymes: -aɪbə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: fi·ber

Noun

fiber (countable and uncountable, plural fibers) (American spelling)

2. (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.

3. (uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.

   The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.

4. (textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.

   Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.

5. Dietary fiber.

   Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber.

6. (figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.

   The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.

7. (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.

   Holonyms: bundle, fiber bundle

   Meronym: germ

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

8. (category theory) The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
9. (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
   • 2008, Joe Duffy, Concurrent Programming on Windows, Pearson Education, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     We've seen how to create a new fiber and convert the current thread into a fiber (which continues to run after the conversion), but we have yet to focus on how to schedule a new fiber onto the current thread.

10. (cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.

    Hyponyms: axon, myocyte, muscle fiber, nerve fiber

Derived terms

• acrylic fiber
• biofiber
• carbon fiber
• C fiber
• cofiber
• dark fiber
• defiber
• dietary fiber
• elastic fiber
• fiber art
• fiberboard
• fiber bundle
• fiber-clay
• fiber clay
• fibered
• fiberfill
• fiberglass
• fiber gun
• fiberise
• fiberize
• fiberless
• fiberlike
• fiber optic
• fiber-optic
• fiberoptic
• fiber-optics
• fiber optics
• fiber plant
• fiberscope
• fibershed
• fiberwise
• fibery
• fibrin, fibrinous
• fibrinogen
• fibrinolysin
• fibrous
• glass fiber
• glass fiber insulation
• high-fiber
• hollow-fiber
• hollowfiber
• interfiber
• macrofiber
• man-made fiber
• microfiber
• milk fiber
• moral fiber
• multifiber
• muscle fiber
• myofiber
• nanofiber
• natural fiber
• nerve fiber
• neurofiber
• optical fiber
• protofiber
• Purkinje fiber
• Remak fiber
• Seifert fiber space
• synthetic fiber
• Tampico fiber
• with every fiber of one's being

Related terms

• fibril, fibrilar
• fibro-
• fibroblast
• fibrocyte
• fibroid
• fibroma
• fibrosis
• fibrositis
• fibrovascular

Translations

fibre — see fibre

Anagrams

• FBIer, brief, fibre

Danish

Noun

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

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

Indonesian

Noun

fiber (plural fiber-fiber)

1. fiber

Synonym: serat

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus. Doublet of beber. The noun was changed to a second declension noun, displacing the original fourth declension pattern which would have yielded *fibrus, *fibrūs.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɪ.bɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfiː.ber]

Noun

fiber m (genitive fibrī); second declension

1. beaver

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

	singular	plural
nominative	fiber	fibrī
genitive	fibrī	fibrōrum
dative	fibrō	fibrīs
accusative	fibrum	fibrōs
ablative	fibrō	fibrīs
vocative	fiber	fibrī

Synonyms

• castor (more common), beber (Late Latin)

Derived terms

• fibrīnus

References

• “fiber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 217

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin fibra (“fiber, filament”), possibly from *fidber or *findber, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”).

Noun

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

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

Derived terms

• fiberglass
• fiberoptisk
• fiberrik
• glassfiber
• karbonfiber
• kostfiber
• naturfiber

References

• “fiber” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

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

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

Derived terms

• fiberoptisk
• fiberrik
• karbonfiber
• naturfiber

References

• “fiber” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

fiber

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Noun

fiber c

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US) (similar senses to English, though less often of moral fiber)

Declension

Declension of fiber

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	fiber	fibers
	definite	fibern	fiberns
plural	indefinite	fibrer	fibrers
	definite	fibrerna	fibrernas

Derived terms

• fibergarn
• fiberkabel
• fibermatta
• fibernät
• fiberrik
• glasfiber
• konstfiber
• kostfiber
• syntetfiber
• växtfiber

See also

• ryggrad
• råg i ryggen

References

• fiber in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fiber in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• fiber in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)