optical fibre

optical fibre

English

Alternative forms

• optical fiber

Noun

optical fibre (countable and uncountable, plural optical fibres)

1. (British spelling) A thin, transparent, flexible fibre, made of glass or plastic, used for transmitting light.

Translations

fibre used for transmitting light

Chinese: Mandarin: 光導纖維／光导纤维 (zh) (guāngdǎoxiānwéi)；光纖／光纤 (zh) (guāngxiān) Czech: optické vlákno n Danish: lysleder c Dutch: glasvezel (nl) m Finnish: valokuitu (fi) French: fibre optique (fr) f German: Lichtwellenleiter (de) m Greek: οπτική ίνα (el) f (optikí ína) Icelandic: ljósleiðari (is) m Italian: fibra ottica (it) f Japanese: 光ファイバ (hikari-faiba), 光ファイバー (ja) (hikari-faibā) Kazakh: сәулежол (säulejol) Macedonian: оптичко влакно n (optičko vlakno) Polish: światłowód (pl) m Portuguese: fibra ótica (pt) f Romanian: fibră optică f Russian: оптоволокно́ (ru) n (optovoloknó) Sindhi: چَشم ريش‎ (sd) (caśm reś) Swedish: optisk fiber c Tagalog: sugaaning himaymay

See also

• fibre optics

Anagrams

• optical fiber