fibre

Plural: fibres

Noun

• A thread-like element or material (British spelling of fiber).
• a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn
• any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber)
• the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; - Herbert Spencer
• a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth
• A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.
• Material in the form of fibres.
• Dietary fibre.
• Moral strength and resolve.
• The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
• Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
• A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
• A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.

Examples

• Fresh vegetables are a good source of fibre.
• He felt every FIBRE of his being strain to find a high-scoring play.
• The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough fibre.
• The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe.
• The ordeal was a test of everyone’s fibre.
• Under this map, any two values in the fibre of a given point on the circle differ by 2π.

Synonyms

character, fiber, vulcanized fiber

Related Words

fibril, fibro-, fibroid, fibrosis, fibrositis