fiber

Etymology

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

noun

1. (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.
2. (uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.
   The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.
3. (textiles) 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. (figurative) Moral strength and resolve.
   The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.
6. (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.
7. (category theory) The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
8. (computing) 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, Joe Duffy, Concurrent Programming on Windows, Pearson Education, unnumbered page
9. (cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.