Meaning of Fibre | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Each one of the filaments that go in in the composition of the organic tissues vegetables or animal.
2. A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.
   countable
3. Material in the form of fibres.
   uncountable
4. Dietary fibre.
   countable, uncountable
5. Moral strength and resolve.
   countable, uncountable
6. The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
   countable, uncountable
7. Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
   countable, uncountable
8. A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
   countable, uncountable
9. A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe.”

“The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough fibre.”

“Fresh vegetables are a good source of fibre.”

“The ordeal was a test of everyone’s fibre.”

“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.”

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

“It is the deeper parts of such cells which give rise to delicate muscular fibres or networks of fibres, while the superficially placed body of the cell myoblast), the part which produces the above, performs other functions, and usually bears a cilium.”

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