Noun: fiber
| Singular | fiber |
| Plural | fibers |
Sample Sentences
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The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe.
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The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.
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Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.
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Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber.
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The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.
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Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π.
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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. [2008, Joe Duffy, Concurrent Programming on Windows, Pearson Education, →ISBN, unnumbered page:]
Nouns inflected like fiber
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French fibre, from Old French fibre, from Latin fibra. See: French Nouns '
fibre', Latin Nouns '
fibra'.