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FIBER
fiber, fibre, vulcanized fiber
(noun) a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth
character, fiber, fibre
(noun) the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; “education has for its object the formation of character”- Herbert Spencer
fiber, fibre
(noun) any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber)
roughage, fiber
(noun) coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis
fiber, fibre
(noun) a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
fiber (countable and uncountable, plural fibers) (American spelling)
(countable) A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
(uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.
(textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
Dietary fiber.
(figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.
(mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
Holonyms: bundle, fiber bundle
Meronym: germ
(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.
Anagrams
• FBIer, brief, fibre
Source: Wiktionary
Fi"ber, Fi"bre, (, n. Etym: [F. fibre, L. fibra.]
1. One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.
2. Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.
3. Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber. Yet had no fibers in him, nor no force. Chapman.
4. A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures. Fiber gun, a kind of steam gun for converting, wood, straw, etc., into fiber. The material is shut up in the gun with steam, air, or gas at a very high pressure which is afterward relieved suddenly by letting a lid at the muzzle fly open, when the rapid expansion separates the fibers.
– Fiber plants (Bot.), plants capable of yielding fiber useful in the arts, as hemp, flax, ramie, agave, etc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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