boilerplate vs fiber

boilerplate

noun
  • Syndicated material. 

  • A sheet of copper or steel used in the construction of a boiler. 

  • The rating plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the Boiler Explosions Act (1882). 

  • Standard text or program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor; text of a legal or official nature added to documents or labels. 

  • Hard, icy snow which may be dangerous to ski on. 

  • Formulaic or hackneyed language. 

  • A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as manufacturer, model number, serial number, and power requirements. 

verb
  • To store (standard text) so that it can easily be retrieved for reuse. 

adj
  • Describing text or other material of a standard or routine nature. 

  • Used to refer to a non-functional spacecraft used to test configuration and procedures. 

fiber

noun
  • A material in the form of fibers. 

  • A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width. 

  • A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue. 

  • The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element). 

  • A kind of lightweight thread of execution. 

  • Moral strength and resolve. 

  • Dietary fiber. 

  • The preimage of a given point in the range of a map. 

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

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