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fiber::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fibre |
| Type of | cell |
| Has types | muscle fiber, nerve fibre, nerve fiber, muscle cell, muscle fibre |
fiber::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fibre |
| Type of | material, stuff |
| Has types | loofa, loofah, loufah sponge, luffa, man-made fiber, manila maguey, raveling, beard, bristle, byssus, cantala, cebu maguey, coir, fibril, filament, glass fiber, glass fibre, lint, nerve fibre, oakum, optical fiber, optical fibre, raffia, bassine, ravelling, spindle, strand, string, synthetic fiber, natural fiber, natural fibre, nerve fiber |
| Derivation | fibrous |
fiber::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | roughage |
| Type of | food product, foodstuff |
| Has types | bran |
Examples of fiber
fiber
Existing optical-fiber technology is inefficient at transmitting infrared light.
From the sciencedaily.com
Today, most fiber-optic equipment is assembled from a bunch of separate modules.
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Fiber optics could be a drawing card to attract tax-paying businesses to Keller.
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Airbus has taken the move from metal to carbon-fiber more gradually than Boeing.
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With its health claims of five kinds of fiber, it was the perfect kid-proof box.
From the post-gazette.com
The city is expanding its open-access fiber-optic network to help lure business.
From the washingtonpost.com
Herbivorous animals make use of the enzyme cellulose, to break down plant fiber.
From the sciencedaily.com
At Corning, we are proud of our 30-year history, rich in fiber optic innovation.
From the jobview.monster.com
Fresh fruit seems to contain a lot of sugar but much of that is water and fiber.
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- A slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn
- Roughage: coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis
- Any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber)
- Character: the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; "education has for its object the formation of character"- Herbert Spencer
- A leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth
- Fiber, also spelled fibre, is a class of materials that are continuous filaments or are in discrete elongated pieces, similar to lengths of thread. They are very important in the biology of both plants and animals, for holding tissues together. Human uses for fibers are diverse. ...
- In computer science, a fiber is a particularly lightweight thread of execution.
- In mathematics, and particularly topology, a fiber bundle (or, in British English, fibre bundle) is a space that is locally a product space, but globally may have a different topological structure. Specifically, the similarity between a space E and a product space B u00D7 F is defined using a continuous surjective map
- Dietary fiber (sometimes called roughage) is the indigestible portion of plant foods having two main components: * soluble (prebiotic, viscous) fiber that is readily fermented in the colon into gases and physiologically active byproducts, and * insoluble fiber that is metabolically inert, ...
