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radio | fiber |

As a verb radio

is .

As a noun fiber is

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

radio

English

(wikipedia radio)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The technology that allows for the transmission of sound or other signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves.
  • (countable) A device that can capture (receive) the signal sent over radio waves and render the modulated signal as sound.
  • (countable) A device that can transmit radio signals.
  • (Internet, uncountable) The continuous broadcasting of sound recordings via the Internet in the style of traditional radio.

    • Synonyms

    * (device to capture radio signal) tuner, wireless, receiver

    Related terms

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive, transitive, ambitransitive) To use two-way radio to transmit (a message) (to another radio or other radio operator).
    • I think the boat is sinking; we'd better radio''' for help.'' / ''I '''radioed''' him already.'' / '''''Radio''' the coordinates this time.'' / ''OK. I '''radioed them the coordinates.
  • To order or assist (to a location), using telecommunications.
  • * 2002 , Jack Dave, Death Bridge , iUniverse, ISBN 978-0-595-21407-5, page 40:
    • “Could you call them here? I'd like to talk to them. Or if they're out in the field, radio them in.”
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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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