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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 fibers
fibers
The fibers need to be woven into sheets and then hardened, typically with resin.
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Soreness the day after exercise is caused by microscopic tears to muscle fibers.
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Cellulose fibers make up a significant portion of the dry weight of most plants.
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Feng shui experts believe wearing natural fibers like cotton promotes good ch'i.
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Roxul Inc.'s stone wool insulation is made from fibers created from molten rock.
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Benefield suffers from the microscopic asbestos fibers lodged deep in her lungs.
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Otherwise the fibers in the meat can shrink too quickly and make the meat tough.
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The special fibers in sesame seeds have been shown to reduce cholesterol levels.
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More recently they've led the way with high-tech coatings and artificial fibers.
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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, ...
