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fiber en · NOUN

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

(US, 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.
(US, uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.
- The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.
(US, countable, uncountable) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
- Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.
(US, countable, uncountable) Dietary fiber.
- Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber.
(US, countable, figuratively, uncountable) Moral strength and resolve.
- The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.
(US, countable, uncountable) 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.
(US, countable, uncountable) The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
(US, countable, uncountable) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
- 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. 2008, Joe Duffy, Concurrent Programming on Windows, Pearson Education, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
(US, countable, uncountable) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
fibre		alternative	lexicographic
fibers	Number=Plur		lexicographic