fibers
USFY-burz/ˈfaɪ.bɚz/UKFY-buhz/ˈfaɪ.bəz/
UK spellingfibres
- 1Plural of fiber.
Tiny fibers from the carpet clung to the detective's coat.
Synthetic fibers such as nylon resist water far better than natural ones.
Note
The plural belongs to the countable uses of fiber: separate strands twisted together into thread, or, in mathematics, the fibers of a map, one over each point of its range. Where fiber names a substance, the roughage in a diet or a person's moral resolve, English can treat it as a mass noun, so "a diet rich in fiber" and "a person of real fiber" need no -s. The -er spelling is the American one.
fibers is a form of fiber
fiber, noun: A material that takes the form of long, thin strands. Full entry
- Forms
- fiberfibers plural
- Spelling
- fiber → fibers: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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