Usually means: Indigestible carbohydrates essential for digestion.
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We found 64 dictionaries that define the word fiber:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. fiber: Merriam-Webster
  2. fiber: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fiber: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fiber: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fiber: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fiber, fiber: Wordnik
  7. fiber: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fiber: Wiktionary
  9. fiber: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fiber: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fiber: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fiber: Dictionary.com
  13. fiber: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fiber: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Fiber (computer science), Fiber (disambiguation), Fiber (food), Fiber (mathematics), Fiber: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fiber: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fiber: Rhymezone
  18. fiber: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. fiber: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. fiber: FreeDictionary.org
  21. fiber: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. fiber: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. fiber: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fiber: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. fiber-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. fiber: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fiber (fiber bundle), Fiber (food), fiber: Encyclopedia

Medicine (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. fiber: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Fiber: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. fiber: Natural Health glossary
  5. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Fiber: Merck Manuals
  7. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Fiber: MedFriendly Glossary
  9. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  10. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  11. Fiber: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  12. fiber: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  13. Fiber (food): Medical dictionary
  14. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  15. Fiber: Drug Medical Dictionary
  16. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)
  17. fiber: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FIBER: Acronym Finder

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fiber: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. fiber: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. fiber: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fiber: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fiber: Body Building

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. fiber: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Book Binding (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  6. The Stamp Store Glossary (concrete) (No longer online)
  7. K & A glossary (No longer online)
  8. Fiber: Fiberglass Glossary
  9. Paper Making (No longer online)
  10. FIBER: Industry Terms for Fiberglass

(Note: See fibered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
noun:  (uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.
noun:  (textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
noun:  Dietary fiber.
noun:  (figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.
noun:  (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
noun:  (category theory) The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
noun:  (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
noun:  (cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.

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