English Online Dictionary. What means fiber? What does fiber mean?
English
Alternative forms
- fibre (non-US)
Etymology
From French fibre, from Old French fibre, from Latin fibra.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfaɪ.bɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfaɪ.bə/
- Rhymes: -aɪbə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: fi·ber
Noun
fiber (countable and uncountable, plural fibers) (American spelling)
- (countable) A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
- (uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.
- (textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
- Dietary fiber.
- (figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.
- (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
- Holonyms: bundle, fiber bundle
- Meronym: germ
- (category theory) The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
- (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
- (cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
- Hyponyms: axon, myocyte, muscle fiber, nerve fiber
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- FBIer, brief, fibre
Danish
Noun
fiber c (definite singular fiberen, indefinite plural fibre, definite plural fibrene)
- fibre (UK), fiber (US)
Indonesian
Noun
fiber
- fiber
Synonym: serat
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus. Doublet of beber. The noun was changed to a second declension noun, displacing the original fourth declension pattern which would have yielded *fibrus, *fibrūs.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfi.ber/, [ˈfɪbɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfi.ber/, [ˈfiːber]
Noun
fiber m (genitive fibrī); second declension
- beaver
Declension
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
Synonyms
- castor (more common), beber (Late Latin)
Derived terms
- fibrīnus
References
- “fiber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin fibra (“fiber, filament”), possibly from *fidber or *findber, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”).
Noun
fiber m (definite singular fiberen, indefinite plural fibere or fibre or fibrer, definite plural fiberne or fibrene)
- fibre (UK), fiber (US)
Derived terms
References
- “fiber” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
fiber m (definite singular fiberen, indefinite plural fibrar, definite plural fibrane)
- fibre (UK), fiber (US)
Derived terms
- fiberoptisk
- fiberrik
- karbonfiber
- naturfiber
References
- “fiber” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Noun
fiber c
- fibre (UK), fiber (US) (similar senses to English, though less often of moral fiber)
Declension
Derived terms
- fibergarn
- fiberkabel
- fibermatta
- fibernät
- fiberrik
- glasfiber
- konstfiber
- kostfiber
- syntetfiber
- växtfiber
See also
- ryggrad
- råg i ryggen
References
- fiber in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- fiber in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- fiber in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)