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Fibre
English
Noun
fibre (fiber in US)
- (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.
- 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
Translations
- Chinese: 纤维 (xianwei)
- kuitu , säie
- French: fibre
- Italian: fibra f
- Japanese: 繊維 (せんい)
- Spanish: fibra f
Related terms
- dietary fibre
- fibre bundle
- fibreboard
- fibreglass
- fibre optics
- fibrescope
- fibril
- fibrin
- fibroid
- fibrosis
- fibrositis
- fibrous
- moral fibre
- natural fibre
- synthetic fibre
French
Noun
fibre f
- fibre
Related terms
- fibranne
- fibreux
- fibrille
- fibrine
- fibrociment
- fibrome
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