fibre
See also: fibré
English
Alternative forms
- fiber (US)
Etymology
From French fibre, from Old French, from Latin fibra.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfaɪ.bə(ɹ)/
Audio (AU) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪbə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: fi‧bre
Noun
fibre (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
Derived terms
- 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
Related terms
Translations
single elongated piece of material
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material in the form of fibres
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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Danish
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French fibre, borrowed from Latin fibra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fibʁ/
Audio (file)
Derived terms
- fibre de carbone
- fibre de verre
- fibre optique
Further reading
- “fibre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfi.bre/
- Rhymes: -ibre
- Hyphenation: fì‧bre
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfibre]
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