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Waveguide vs Fiber - What's the difference?

waveguide | fiber |

As nouns the difference between waveguide and fiber

is that waveguide is a structure which guides waves, such as electromagnetic waves, light, or sound waves while fiber is a single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.

As a verb waveguide

is to act as a waveguide for.

waveguide

English

(wikipedia waveguide)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A structure which guides waves, such as electromagnetic waves, light, or sound waves.

    • Verb

    (waveguid)
  • To act as a for
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    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}}

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