fibre

noun8

1. •
   A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.

   • The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe.
2. •
   Dietary fibre.

   • Fresh vegetables are a good source of fibre.
3. •
   Material in the form of fibres.

   • The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough fibre.
4. •
   Moral strength and resolve.

   • The ordeal was a test of everyone’s fibre.
5. •
   A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
6. •
   A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
7. •
   The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.

   • Under this map, any two values in the fibre of a given point on the circle differ by 2π.
8. •
   Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.