fibre

English Online Dictionary. What means fibre‎? What does fibre mean?

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) (British, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa spellings)

2. (countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.

4. (uncountable) Material in the form of fibres.

5. Dietary fibre.

6. Moral strength and resolve.

7. (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

8. (category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
9. (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
10. (cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.

    Hyponyms: axon, myocyte, muscle fibre, nerve fibre

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Translations

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

Descendants

• → Persian: فیبر (fibr)

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