fiber

IPA: fˈaɪbɝ

(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.
(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.

Examples of "fiber" in Sentences

The fiber is played by probiotics is in the colon, which in fermentation.
Most of the meals are relatively high in fiber and low in saturated (animal) fat.
In 1966, Charles K. Kao made a discovery that led to a breakthrough in fiber optics.
However telecable's closest actual optical cable/fiber is around 1 Kilometer from my house.
I'd go with any ajustable single pin fiber optic sight ... preferably with a light for those early and late shots.
Teleportation over distances of a few hundred meters has previously only been accomplished with the photons traveling in fiber channels to help preserve their state.
Our enterprise business which we define as a fiber based bandwidth contracts with large customers continues to perform well with annual revenue gross in excess of 35%.
But we have what we call a fiber hook-up and we literally take a plug, put it into the wall and it allows us to transmit live pretty much no matter how strong the winds are.
Thus this type of sail would be more of a film than a foil and aluminum sheets would probably have to be sandwiched and glued between a mesh (perhaps made of ultrathin fiber glass threads) before being rigged to a huge but extremely thin solid metal framework.