fibre
Etymology
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Etymology
From
- (British) IPA: /ˈfaɪ.bə(ɹ)/
fibre (British, Canadian, Australian, Irish, New Zealand, South African 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.
- 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
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