Fiber vs Roving - What's the difference?
fiber | roving |
(countable) A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
(uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.
(textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
Dietary fiber.
(figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.
(mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
(computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
wandering freely.
:His roving eyes never focused on anything specific.
* 1989 , , Concrete: Visible Breath , Dark Horse Books
As nouns the difference between fiber and roving
is that fiber is (countable) a single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread while roving is a long and narrow bundle of fibre, usually used to spin woollen yarn.As an adjective roving is
wandering freely.As a verb roving is
.fiber
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Alternative forms
* fibre (chiefly British)Noun
(en noun)- The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe.
- The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber .
- Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.
- ''Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber
- The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber .
- ''Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π
Derived terms
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* * ----roving
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Adjective
(en adjective)- It could complicate things for our little household. Particularly when Larry’s roving eye is factored in.