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What is the difference between fabric and fibre?

fabric | fibre |

In context|computing|lang=en terms the difference between fabric and fibre

is that fabric is (computing) interconnected nodes that look like a textile 'fabric' when viewed collectively from a distance while fibre is (computing) a kind of lightweight thread of execution.

As nouns the difference between fabric and fibre

is that fabric is (originally|construction) structure, building while fibre is (senseid)(countable) a single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.

fabric

English

Alternative forms

* fabrick (obsolete)

Noun

(wikipedia fabric)
  • (archaic) structure, building
  • * Milton
  • Anon out of the earth a fabric huge / Rose like an exhalation.
  • (archaic) The act of constructing; construction; fabrication.
  • * Milman
  • Tithe was received by the bishop for the fabric of the churches for the poor.
  • (archaic) The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make.
  • cloth of a beautiful fabric
  • The framework underlying a structure
  • the fabric of our lives
    the fabric of the universe
  • A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.
  • cotton fabric
  • (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock
  • (computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile 'fabric' when viewed collectively from a distance
  • The internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers

    Synonyms

    * See also

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    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.
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