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fiber

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noun/ˈfaɪ.bɚ//ˈfaɪ.bə/
  1. 1

    A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.UScountable

    • The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe.
  2. 2

    A material in the form of fibers.USuncountable

    • The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.
  3. 3

    A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.UScountableuncountable

    • Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.
  4. 4

    Dietary fiber.UScountableuncountable

    • Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber.
  5. 5

    Moral strength and resolve.UScountablefiguratively

    • The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.
  6. 6

    The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.UScountableuncountable

    • Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π.
  7. 7

    The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).UScountableuncountable

  8. 8

    A kind of lightweight thread of execution.UScountableuncountable

    • 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. 9

    A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.UScountableuncountable

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