fiber

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  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.
    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.
  7. (category theory) The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
  8. (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.
  9. (cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
    Hyponyms: axon, myocyte, muscle fiber, nerve fiber

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Translations

fibre — see fibre

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Danish

Noun

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

  1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

Indonesian

Noun

fiber (first-person possessive fiberku, second-person possessive fibermu, third-person possessive fibernya)

  1. fiber

Synonym: serat

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus. Doublet of beber.

Pronunciation

Noun

fiber m (genitive fibrī); second declension

  1. beaver

Declension

Second-declension noun (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

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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)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

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

  1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

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Swedish

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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 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative fiber fibern fibrer fibrerna
Genitive fibers fiberns fibrers fibrernas

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References

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