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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fiber \Fi"ber\, Fibre \Fi"bre\,, n. [F. fibre, L. fibra.] 1. One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as the fiber of flax or of muscle. 2. Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant. 3. Sinew; strength; toughness; as a man of real fiber. Yet had no fibers in him nor no force. --Chapman. 4. A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures. {Fiber gun}, a kind of steam gun for converting, wood, straw, etc., into fiber. The material is shut up in the gun with steam, air, or gas at a very high pressure which is afterward relieved suddenly by letting a lid at the muzzle fly open when the rapid expansion separates the fibers. {Fiber plants} (Bot.), plants capable of yielding fiber useful in the arts, as hemp, flax, ramie, agave, etc From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: fiber n 1: a slender and greatly elongated solid substance [syn: {fibre}] 2: the inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions: "educaton has for its object the formation of character"- Herbert Spencer [syn: {character}, {fibre}] 3: a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth [syn: {fibre}, {vulcanized fiber}]
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