Meaning of Fiber | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
   US, countable
2. A material in the form of fibers.
   US, uncountable
3. A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
   US, countable, uncountable
4. Dietary fiber.
   US, countable, uncountable
5. Moral strength and resolve.
   US, countable, figuratively, uncountable
6. The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
   US, countable, uncountable
7. The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
   US, countable, uncountable
8. A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
   US, countable, uncountable
9. A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
   US, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe.”

“The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.”

“Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.”

“Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber.”

“The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.”

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

“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.”

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