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Fiber
Fiber or fibre (see spelling differences, from the Latin fibra) is a natural or synthetic substance that is significantly longer than it is wide. Fibers are often used in the manufacture of other materials. The strongest engineering materials often incorporate fibers, for example carbon fiber and ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene.
Synthetic fibers can often be produced very cheaply and in large amounts compared to natural fibers, but for clothing natural fibers can give some benefits, such as comfort, over their synthetic counterparts.
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Filament (noun)
A fine thread or wire.
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Filament (noun)
Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
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Filament (noun)
A massive, thread-like structure, such as those gaseous ones which extend outward from the surface of the sun, or such as those (much larger) ones which form the boundaries between large voids in the universe.
“solar filament”
“galaxy filament”
“the Ursa Major Filament”
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Filament (noun)
The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.
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Filament (noun)
A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.
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Fiber (noun)
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.”
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Fiber (noun)
A material in the form of fibers.
“The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.”
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Fiber (noun)
A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
“Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.”
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Fiber (noun)
Dietary fiber.
“Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber”
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Fiber (noun)
Moral strength and resolve.
“The ordeal was a test of everyone’s fiber.”
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Fiber (noun)
The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
“Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π”
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Fiber (noun)
Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
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Fiber (noun)
A kind of lightweight thread of execution.