English Dictionary

fiber

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfaɪ.bɚ/

名詞

アメリカ英語 可算名詞 不可算名詞 比喩的用法

(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.

日本語の意味

細長い棒状の、横断面がほぼ円形の繊維。一般に、他の繊維と撚り合わせられて糸や布地になるための素材として用いられるもの。 / 繊維状の物質そのもの、またはその成分。

She examined a single fiber from the ancient tapestry under a microscope.

彼女は顕微鏡で古いタペストリーから採取した一本の繊維を調べた。

意味（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.

意味（2）

(uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.

The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.

意味（3）

(textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.

Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.

意味（4）

Dietary fiber.

Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber.

意味（5）

(figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.

The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.

意味（6）

(mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.

Holonyms: bundle, fiber bundle

意味（7）

(category theory) The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).

意味（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.

意味（9）

(cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.

fibers （ plural ）