| fibre | |
| 1. n. A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread. | |
| The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe. | |
| 2. n. Material in the form of fibres. | |
| The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough fibre. | |
| 3. n. Dietary fibre. | |
| Fresh vegetables are a good source of fibre. | |
| 4. n. Moral strength and resolve. | |
| The ordeal was a test of everyone’s fibre. | |
| 5. n. (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map. | |
| Under this map, any two values in the fibre of a given point on the circle differ by 2π | |
| 6. n. (category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element. | |
| 7. n. (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution. | |
| 8. n. A long tubular cell found in muscle tissue; myocyte. | |
