Fiber
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noun
(1) A leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth
(2) The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
"Education has for its object the formation of character"- Herbert Spencer
(3) A slender and greatly elongated solid substance
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Etymology
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Noun
- A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
- The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe.
- A material in the form of fibers.
- The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.
- A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
- Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.
- Dietary fiber.
- Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber
- Moral strength and resolve.
- The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.
- The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
- Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π
Related terms
- dietary fiber
- fiber bundle
- fiberboard
- fibered
- fiberglass
- fiberize
- fiber optics
- fiberscope
- fibril, fibrilar
- fibrin, fibrinous
- fibrinogen
- fibrinolysin
- fibroblast
- fibrocyte
- fibroid
- fibroma
- fibrosis
- fibrositis
- fibrous
- fibrovascular
- moral fiber
- natural fiber
- synthetic fiber