# fiber
## English

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### Alternative forms

* fibre (non-US)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈfaɪ.bɚ/
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* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfaɪ.bə/
* Rhymes: -aɪbə(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: fi·ber

### Noun

fiber (countable and uncountable, plural fibers) (American spelling)
* (countable) A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
    The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe.
* (uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.
    The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.
* (textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
    Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.
* Dietary fiber.
    Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber.
* (figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.
    The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.
* (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
    Holonyms: bundle, fiber bundle
    Meronym: germ
    Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π.
* (category theory) The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
* (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
** 2008, Joe Duffy, Concurrent Programming on Windows, Pearson Education, →ISBN, unnumbered page: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.
* (cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
    Hyponyms: axon, myocyte, muscle fiber, nerve fiber

#### Derived terms

* acrylic fiber
* biofiber
* carbon fiber
* C fiber
* cofiber
* dark fiber
* defiber
* dietary fiber
* elastic fiber
* fiber art
* fiberboard
* fiber bundle
* fiber-clay
* fiber clay
* fibered
* fiberfill
* fiberglass
* fiber gun
* fiberise
* fiberize
* fiberless
* fiberlike
* fiber optic
* fiber-optic
* fiberoptic
* fiber-optics
* fiber optics
* fiber plant
* fiberscope
* fibershed
* fiberwise
* fibery
* fibrin, fibrinous
* fibrinogen
* fibrinolysin
* fibrous
* glass fiber
* glass fiber insulation
* high-fiber
* hollow-fiber
* hollowfiber
* interfiber
* macrofiber
* man-made fiber
* microfiber
* milk fiber
* moral fiber
* multifiber
* muscle fiber
* myofiber
* nanofiber
* natural fiber
* nerve fiber
* neurofiber
* optical fiber
* protofiber
* Purkinje fiber
* Remak fiber
* Seifert fiber space
* synthetic fiber
* Tampico fiber
* with every fiber of one's being

#### Related terms

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

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* FBIer, brief, fibre

## Danish
### Noun

fiber c (definite singular fiberen, indefinite plural fibre, definite plural fibrene)
* fibre (UK), fiber (US)

## Indonesian
### Noun

fiber (plural fiber-fiber)
* fiber
Synonym: serat

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus. Doublet of beber. The noun was changed to a second declension noun, displacing the original fourth declension pattern which would have yielded *fibrus, *fibrūs.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfi.ber/, [ˈfɪbɛr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfi.ber/, [ˈfiːber]

### Noun

fiber m (genitive fibrī); second declension
* beaver

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

#### Synonyms

* castor (more common), beber (Late Latin)

#### Derived terms

* fibrīnus

### References

* “fiber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin fibra (“fiber, filament”), possibly from *fidber or *findber, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”).

### Noun

fiber m (definite singular fiberen, indefinite plural fibere or fibre or fibrer, definite plural fiberne or fibrene)
* fibre (UK), fiber (US)

#### Derived terms

* fiberglass
* fiberoptisk
* fiberrik
* glassfiber
* karbonfiber
* kostfiber
* naturfiber

### References

* “fiber” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

fiber m (definite singular fiberen, indefinite plural fibrar, definite plural fibrane)
* fibre (UK), fiber (US)

#### Derived terms

* fiberoptisk
* fiberrik
* karbonfiber
* naturfiber

### References

* “fiber” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Noun

fiber c
* fibre (UK), fiber (US) (similar senses to English, though less often of moral fiber)

#### Derived terms

* fibergarn
* fiberkabel
* fibermatta
* fibernät
* fiberrik
* glasfiber
* konstfiber
* kostfiber
* syntetfiber
* växtfiber

#### See also

* ryggrad
* råg i ryggen

### References

* fiber in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* fiber in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* fiber in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)