Fiber vs Supercalender - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between fiber and supercalender

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 supercalender is a stack of calenders consisting of alternating steel and fiber-covered rolls through which paper is passed to increase its density, smoothness and gloss.

As a verb supercalender is

to pass (paper) through a supercalender.

fiber

English

Alternative forms

* fibre (chiefly British)

Noun

(en noun)

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

The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe.

(uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.

The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber .

(textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.

Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.

Dietary fiber.

''Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber

(figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.

The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber .

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

''Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π

(computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.

Derived terms

{{der3, dietary fiber , fiber bundle , fiberboard , fibered , fiberglass , fiberize , fiber optics , fiberscope , fibril, fibrilar , fibrin, fibrinous , fibrinogen , fibrinolysin , fibroblast , fibrocyte , fibroid , fibroma , fibrosis , fibrositis , fibrous , fibrovascular , microfiber , moral fiber , natural fiber , synthetic fiber}}

Anagrams

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supercalender

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia supercalender)

A stack of calenders consisting of alternating steel and fiber-covered rolls through which paper is passed to increase its density, smoothness and gloss.

Verb

(en verb)

To pass (paper) through a supercalender.