fiber

中文： 纤维、膳食纤维

1. A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread. (US, countable) · The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe.
2. A material in the form of fibers. (US, uncountable) · The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.
3. A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width. (US, countable, uncountable) · Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.
4. Dietary fiber. (US, countable, uncountable) · Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber.
5. Moral strength and resolve. (US, countable, figuratively, uncountable) · The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.
6. The preimage of a given point in the range of a map. (US, countable, uncountable) · Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π.
7. The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element). (US, countable, uncountable)
8. A kind of lightweight thread of execution. (US, countable, uncountable)

复数 fibers