different between fiber vs fibrillation

English

Alternative forms

• fibre (chiefly British)

Etymology

From French fibre, from Old French, from Latin fibra

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fa?.b?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fa?.b?/
• Rhymes: -a?b?(r)

Noun

fiber (countable and uncountable, plural fibers) (American spelling)

1. (countable) A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.

2. (uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.

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

4. Dietary fiber.

5. (figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.

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

   Holonyms: bundle, fiber bundle

   Meronym: germ

7. (category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
8. (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• FBIer, brief, fibre

Danish

Noun

fiber c (definite singular fiberen, indefinite plural fibre, definite plural fibrene)

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *b?éb?rus. Doublet of beber.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fi.ber/, [?f?b?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fi.ber/, [?fi?b?r]

Noun

fiber m (genitive fibr?); second declension

1. beaver

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Synonyms

• castor (more common), beber (Late Latin)

Derived terms

• fibr?nus

References

• fiber in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin fibra (“fiber, filament”), possibly from *fidber or *findber, from Proto-Indo-European *b?eyd- (“to split”).

Noun

fiber m (definite singular fiberen, indefinite plural fibere or fibre or fibrer, definite plural fiberne or fibrene)

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

Derived terms

References

• “fiber” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

fiber m (definite singular fiberen, indefinite plural fibrar, definite plural fibrane)

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

Derived terms

• fiberoptisk
• fiberrik
• karbonfiber
• naturfiber

References

• “fiber” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

fiber c

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

Declension

English

Etymology

From New Latin fibrilla, diminutive of Latin fibra (“fiber”) in reference to the muscle strands of the heart.

Noun

fibrillation (countable and uncountable, plural fibrillations)

1. The rapid, irregular, and unsynchronized contraction of the muscle fibers of the heart.

Derived terms

• atrial fibrillation
• defibrillation
• ventricular fibrillation

Related terms

• fiber
• fibrillate
• defibrillate
• defibrillator

Translations