fiber

Noun

1. 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.
2. A material in the form of fibers.
   • The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.
3. A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
   • Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.
4. Dietary fiber.
   • Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber.
5. Moral strength and resolve.
   • The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.
6. The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
   • Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π.

   Meronyms: germ

7. The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
8. A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
   • 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,...
9. A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.