English-French translations for fibre

• fibre
  Nous sommes au courant de l'action légale entreprise par Fibres and Fabrics International contre la Clean Clothes Campaign. We are aware of the legal action that has been taken by Fibres and Fabrics International against the Clean Clothes Campaign.
  Nous parlons de fibres textiles, mais aussi d'autres matières, telles que des morceaux de fourrure. We are talking not about the fibre but about other materials, such as pieces of fur.
  C' est justement avec les fibres courtes que les agriculteurs empochaient des primes indûment. It is precisely with the short-fibre variant that farmers fiddled the system.

Definition of fibre

• A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread
• Material in the form of fibres
• Dietary fibre
• Moral strength and resolve
• The preimage of a given point in the range of a map
• ''Said to be of a morphism over a global element'': The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element
• A long tubular cell found in muscle tissue; myocyte

Examples

• The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe.
• The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough fibre.
• Fresh vegetables are a good source of fibre.
• The ordeal was a test of everyone’s fibre.
• Under this map, any two values in the fibre of a given point on the circle differ by 2&pi

Related words

• fibreglass
• chlorofibre
• microfibre
• fibreboard
• myofibre
• fibrelike
• fibred
• fibre optic cable
• fibre optics