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Fibre vs Olivocerebellar - What's the difference?

fibre | olivocerebellar |

As a noun fibre

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

As an adjective olivocerebellar is

of or pertaining to the olivary nucleus and cerebellar hemisphere, especially with regard to the olivocerebellar tract connecting the two by means of fibres.

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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    olivocerebellar

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    Adjective

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  • Of or pertaining to the olivary nucleus and cerebellar hemisphere, especially with regard to the olivocerebellar tract connecting the two by means of fibres.