What does "fiber" mean?

A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.

What is a synonym for "fiber"?

Common synonyms include: character, acetate rayon, all that lives, alpaca, angora, animal fiber.

//ˈfaɪ.bɚ// noun

noun ·Common ·High school level

Noun

1
A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread. US, countable
"The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe."
2
a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth wordnet
3
A material in the form of fibers. US, uncountable
"The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber."
4
the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions wordnet
5
A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width. US, countable, uncountable
"Please use polyester fiber for this shirt."

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6
any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber) wordnet
7
Dietary fiber. US, countable, uncountable
"Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber."
8
coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis wordnet
9
Moral strength and resolve. US, countable, figuratively, uncountable
"The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber."
10
a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn wordnet
11
The preimage of a given point in the range of a map. US, countable, uncountable
"Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π."
12
The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element). US, countable, uncountable
13
A kind of lightweight thread of execution. US, countable, uncountable
"We've seen how to create a new fiber and convert the current thread into a fiber (which continues to run after the conversion), but we have yet to focus on how to schedule a new fiber onto the current thread."
14
A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue. US, countable, uncountable