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biology | fibre |

As a noun biology

is the study of all life or living matter.

As a verb fibre is

.

As an adjective fibre is

fibrous.

biology

English

(wikipedia biology)

Noun

  • The study of all life or living matter.
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  • The living organisms of a particular region.
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  • The structure, function, and behavior of an organism or type of organism.
    • the biology of the whale

    Synonyms

    * , life science, life sciences

    Meronyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * actinobiology * aerobiology * agrobiology * astrobiology * chemical biology * chronobiology * cryobiology * developmental biology * electrobiology * evolutionary biology * evolutionary developmental biology * exobiology * forensic biology * geobiology * geomicrobiology * glycobiology * hydrobiology * immunobiology * macrobiology * marine biology * microbiology * molecular biology * neurobiology * nonbiology * palaeobiology * paleobiology * pathobiology * photobiology * phytobiology * psychobiology * radiation biology * radiobiology * sociobiology * soil microbiology * space biology * structural biology * synthetic biology * synthetic-biology * systems biology * xenobiology

    Related terms

    * biological * biologically * biologic * biologism * biologist * biologize

    See also

    *

    fibre

    English

    (wikipedia fibre)

    Alternative forms

    * fiber (US)

    Noun

  • (en noun) (British, Canada, Australia, Ireland, NZ, South Africa)
  • (senseid)(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.
  • (senseid)(uncountable) Material in the form of fibres.
    • The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough fibre .
  • Dietary fibre.
    • ''Fresh vegetables are a good source of fibre .
  • Moral strength and resolve.
    • The ordeal was a test of everyone’s fibre .
  • (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
  • (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.

    • Related terms

    (Related terms) * dietary fibre * fibre bundle * fibreboard * fibreglass * fibre optics * fibrescope * fibril * fibrin * fibroid * fibrosis * fibrositis * fibrous * microfibre * moral fibre * natural fibre * synthetic fibre

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