Fibre vs. Fibrocartilage

Fibrenoun

(countable) 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.’;

Fibrocartilagenoun

A tough form of cartilage that has a matrix of dense bundles of fibres.

Fibrenoun

(uncountable) Material in the form of fibres.

‘The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough fibre.’;

Fibrocartilagenoun

A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure.

Fibrenoun

Dietary fibre.

‘Fresh vegetables are a good source of fibre.’;

Fibrocartilagenoun

cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue

Fibrenoun

Moral strength and resolve.

‘The ordeal was a test of everyone’s fibre.’;

Fibrocartilage

Fibrocartilage consists of a mixture of white fibrous tissue and cartilaginous tissue in various proportions. It owes its inflexibility and toughness to the former of these constituents, and its elasticity to the latter.

Fibrenoun

(mathematics) 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’;

Fibrenoun

(category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.

Fibrenoun

(computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.

Fibrenoun

A long tubular cell found in muscle tissue; myocyte.

Fibrenoun

Same as fiber.

Fibrenoun

a slender and greatly elongated solid substance

Fibrenoun

the inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions;

‘education has for its object the formation of character’;

Fibrenoun

a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth

Fibrenoun

a thread or filament from which a vegetable tissue, mineral substance, or textile is formed

‘the basket comes lined with natural coco fibres’;

Fibrenoun

a substance formed of fibres

‘ordinary synthetics don't breathe as well as natural fibres’; ‘high strength carbon fibre’;

Fibrenoun

a threadlike structure forming part of the muscular, nervous, connective, or other tissue in the human or animal body

‘she wanted him with every fibre of her being’; ‘there were degenerative changes in muscle fibres’;

Fibrenoun

strength of character

‘a weak person with no moral fibre’;

Fibrenoun

dietary material containing substances such as cellulose, lignin, and pectin, that are resistant to the action of digestive enzymes.