fiber

Meanings

Plural: fibers

Noun

• a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn
• 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)
• 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 elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
• A material in the form of fibers.
• A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
• Dietary fiber.
• Moral strength and resolve.
• The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
• The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
• A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
• A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.

Synonyms

character, fibre, roughage, vulcanized fiber

Related Words

fibril, fibrilar, fibro-, fibroblast, fibrocyte, fibroid, fibroma, fibrosis, fibrositis, fibrovascular