fibre

fibre

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English

Alternative forms

  • fiber (US)

Etymology

From French fibre, from Old French, from Latin fibra.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfaɪ.bə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -aɪbə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: fi‧bre

Noun

fibre (countable and uncountable, plural fibres) (Britain, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa spellings)

  1. (countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.
  2. (uncountable) Material in the form of fibres.
  3. Dietary fibre.
  4. Moral strength and resolve.
  5. (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
  6. (category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
  7. (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
  8. (cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
    Hyponyms: axon, myocyte, muscle fibre, nerve fibre

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Anagrams

  • FBIer, brief, fiber

Danish

Noun

fibre c pl

  1. indefinite plural of fiber

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French fibre, borrowed from Latin fibra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fibʁ/

Noun

fibre f (plural fibres)

  1. fibre

Derived terms

  • fibre de carbone
  • fibre de verre
  • fibre optique

Related terms

Further reading

  • “fibre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfi.bre/
  • Rhymes: -ibre
  • Hyphenation: fì‧bre

Noun

fibre f pl

  1. plural of fibra

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • fibere
  • fibrer

Noun

fibre m pl

  1. indefinite plural of fiber

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfibre]

Noun

fibre f

  1. inflection of fibră:
    1. indefinite plural
    2. indefinite genitive/dative singular

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