English-Italian translations for fibre

• fibra
  I costi di produzione della fibra lunga di lino sono più elevati rispetto a quelli per la produzione della fibra corta o della canapa. The production costs for long-fibre flax are higher than those for short-fibre flax and for hemp.
  Non è nulla di simile: manca totalmente di fibra morale. She is nothing of the sort: she lacks moral fibre.

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