fibre

fibre

See also: fibré

English

Alternative forms

• fiber (US)

Etymology

From French fibre, from Old French, from Latin fibra.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪ.bə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -aɪbə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: fi‧bre

Noun

fibre (countable and uncountable, plural fibres) (Britain, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa spellings)

1. (countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.

   The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe.

2. (uncountable) Material in the form of fibres.

   The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough fibre.

3. Dietary fibre.

   Fresh vegetables are a good source of fibre.

4. Moral strength and resolve.
   • 1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 2, in Lord Jim:

     He was gentlemanly, steady, tractable, with a thorough knowledge of his duties; and in time, when yet very young, he became chief mate of a fine ship, without ever having been tested by those events of the sea that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance and the secret truth of his pretences, not only to others but also to himself.

   The ordeal was a test of everyone’s fibre.

5. (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.

   Under this map, any two values in the fibre of a given point on the circle differ by 2π

6. (category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
7. (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
8. (cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.

   Hyponyms: axon, myocyte, muscle fibre, nerve fibre

Derived terms

• carbon fibre
• dark fibre
• dietary fibre
• fibreboard
• fibre bundle
• fibre cement
• fibre-faced
• fibreglass
• fibre optic
• fibre optics
• fibre-optics
• fibre-reinforced plastic
• fibrescope
• fibrin
• fibrise, fibrize
• fibrous
• hollow-fibre
• microfibre
• moral fibre
• muscle fibre
• muscle fibre
• natural fibre
• nerve fibre
• nerve fibre
• optical fibre
• Purkinje fibre
• Seifert fibre space
• synthetic fibre

 

Related terms

• fibril
• fibro-
• fibroid
• fibrosis
• fibrositis

 

Translations

single elongated piece of material

Assamese: আঁহ (ãh) Bashkir: сүс (süs) Bulgarian: нишка (bg) f (niška), фибра (bg) f (fibra) Catalan: fibra (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 纖維／纤维 (zh) (xiānwéi) Czech: vlákno (cs) n Danish: fiber c Dutch: vezel (nl) f Estonian: kiud Finnish: kuitu (fi), säie (fi) French: fibre (fr) f Georgian: ბოჭკო (boč̣ḳo) German: Faser (de) f Hebrew: סִיב‎ (he) m (siv) Hungarian: rostszál, fonál (hu) Ido: fibro (io) Italian: fibra (it) f Japanese: 繊維 (ja) (せんい, sen'i) Kazakh: талшық (talşyq) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: rîşal (ku) Latin: fibra f Macedonian: вла́кно n (vlákno) Malayalam: നാര് (ml) (nārŭ) Norwegian: Bokmål: fiber (no) m Nynorsk: fiber (no) m Ottoman Turkish: ایپلك‎ (iplik) Persian: فیبر‎ (fa) (fibr), الیاف‎ (fa) (alyâf) Polish: włókno (pl) n Portuguese: fibra (pt) f Quechua: ch'awar, paqpa Romanian: fibră (ro) f Russian: волокно́ (ru) n (voloknó), волосо́к (ru) m (volosók), фи́бра (ru) f (fíbra), нить (ru) f (nitʹ) Swedish: fiber (sv) c Tagalog: hibla (tl), himaymay Turkish: lif (tr) Vietnamese: sợi (vi)

material in the form of fibres

Bashkir: сүс (süs) Bulgarian: влакно (bg) n (vlakno) Dutch: draad (nl) m Finnish: kuitu (fi) Italian: fibra (it) f Macedonian: вла́кно n (vlákno) Persian: فیبر‎ (fa) (fibr) Portuguese: fibra (pt) f Russian: волокно́ (ru) n (voloknó)

dietary fibre — see dietary fibre

moral strength and reserve

Bulgarian: характер (bg) m (harakter) Dutch: moraal (nl) n Finnish: suoraselkäisyys (fi) Hungarian: természet (hu), jellem (hu) Italian: fibra (it) f Portuguese: fibra (pt) f

mathematics: preimage of a given point in the range of a map

Finnish: säie (fi) German: Faser (de) f Italian: fibra (it) f

long tubular cell found in bodily tissue

Finnish: syy (fi) French: fibre (fr) Italian: fibra (it) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: masûlkerîşal (literally “muscle fibre”) Portuguese: fibra (pt) Spanish: fibra (es)

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Bengali: (please verify) আঁশ (bn) (ãś), (please verify) তন্তু (tôntu) French: (please verify) fibre (fr) f Japanese: (please verify) 繊維 (ja) (せんい, sen’i) Mandarin: (please verify) 纤维 (zh) (xianwei) Slovene: (please verify) vlakno (sl) n, (please verify) vlaknina f Spanish: (please verify) fibra (es) f Volapük: (please verify) faib (vo)

Anagrams

• FBIer, brief, fiber

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Danish

Noun

fibre c pl

1. indefinite plural of fiber

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French

Etymology

From Old French fibre, borrowed from Latin fibra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fibʁ/

• Audio

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Noun

fibre f (plural fibres)

1. fibre

Derived terms

• fibre de carbone
• fibre de verre
• fibre optique

Related terms

• fibranne
• fibreux
• fibrille
• fibrine
• fibrociment
• fibrome

 

Further reading

• “fibre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.bre/
• Rhymes: -ibre
• Hyphenation: fì‧bre

Noun

fibre f pl

1. plural of fibra

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• fibere
• fibrer

Noun

fibre m pl

1. indefinite plural of fiber

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfibre]

Noun

fibre f

1. inflection of fibră:
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular