Fibre vs. Polymer — What's the Difference?

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

A polymer (; Greek poly-, "many" + -mer, "part") is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules, or macromolecules, composed of many repeating subunits. Due to their broad spectrum of properties, both synthetic and natural polymers play essential and ubiquitous roles in everyday life.

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

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds of usually high molecular weight consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units, each a relatively light and simple molecule.

Variant of fiber.

(organic chemistry) A long or larger molecule consisting of a chain or network of many repeating units, formed by chemically bonding together many identical or similar small molecules called monomers. A polymer is formed by polymerization, the joining of many monomer molecules.

(countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.

A material consisting of such polymer molecules.

(uncountable) Material in the form of fibres.

Any one of two or more substances related to each other by polymerism; specifically, a substance produced from another substance by chemical polymerization.

Dietary fibre.

A naturally occurring or synthetic compound consisting of large molecules made up of a linked series of repeated simple monomers

Moral strength and resolve.

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

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

(computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.

(cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.

Same as fiber.

A slender and greatly elongated solid substance

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

A leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth