fiberとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French fibre, from Old French, from Latin fibra

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪ.bɚ/
  • (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪ.bə/
  • 韻: -aɪbə(ɹ)

名詞

fiber (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 fibers) (米国用法 spelling)

1. (countable) 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.

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

   The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.

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

   Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.

4. Dietary fiber.

   Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber

5. (figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.

   The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.

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

   Holonyms: bundle, fiber bundle

   Meronym: germ

   Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π

7. (category theory) The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
8. (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
   • 2008, Joe Duffy, Concurrent Programming on Windows, Pearson Education, →ISBN, page unnumbered:

     We've seen how to create a new fiber and convert the current thread into a fiber (which continues to run after the conversion), but we have yet to focus on how to schedule a new fiber onto the current thread.

派生語

アナグラム

• FBIer, brief, fibre

Latin

語源

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus. Doublet of beber.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ber/, [ˈfɪbɛɾ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ber/, [ˈfiːbɛr]

名詞

fiber m (genitive fibrī); second declension

1. beaver

語形変化

Second-declension noun (nominative 単数形 in -er).

同意語

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

派生語

• fibrīnus

参照

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