different between fibrin vs fiber

English

Alternative forms

• fibrine (dated)

Etymology

fibre +? -in (“used to form chemical names of proteins, etc”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?b??n/

Noun

fibrin (usually uncountable, plural fibrins)

1. A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood.
2. An elastic, insoluble, whitish protein produced by the action of thrombin on fibrinogen and forming an interlacing fibrous network in the coagulation of blood.
3. An albuminous body, resembling animal fibrin in composition, found in cereal grains and similar seeds; vegetable fibrin.

Synonyms

• (medicine) factor Ia

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

fibrin (third-person singular simple present fibrins, present participle fibrining, simple past and past participle fibrined)

1. To apply fibrin sealant to a surgical site to either stop bleeding or for surgical flap closure.

References

• fibrin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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