fiber

== English == === Alternative forms === fibre (non-US) === Etymology === From French fibre, from Old French fibre, from Latin fibra. === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfaɪ.bɚ/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /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. (uncountable) A material in the form of fibers. (textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width. Dietary fiber. (figuratively) Moral strength and resolve. (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map. Holonyms: bundle, fiber bundle Meronym: germ (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. (cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue. Hyponyms: axon, myocyte, muscle fiber, nerve fiber ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === FBIer, brief, fibre == Danish == === Etymology === From Latin fibra. === 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 == === Alternative forms === feber === Etymology === Uncertain. The term possibly derives Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus (perhaps via Proto-Italic *fefr-), with the raising of the initial vowel to /i/. Alternatively, the term may derive directly from a PIE form of the shape *bʰi*bʰr- (perhaps via Proto-Italic *fifr-). According to De Vaan, due the varying usage of /e/ and /i/ as reduplication vowels in PIE, it is impossible to decide between either form. Moreover, the o-stem of the Latin term conflicts with the u-stem of the PIE form. It is perhaps possible that there existed a PIE o-stem term *bʰebʰros or *bʰibʰros. Doublet of beber. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɪ.bɛr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfiː.ber] === 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 De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 217 == 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 ==== === 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 == === Etymology === From Latin fibra === Noun === fiber c fibre (UK), fiber (US) (similar senses to English, though less often of moral fiber) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== See also ==== ryggrad råg i ryggen === References === fiber in Svensk ordbok (SO) fiber in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL) fiber in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)