cilium vs fiber

cilium

noun
  • Hairs or similar protrusions along the margin of an organ. 

  • One of the fine hairs along an insect's wing. 

  • An eyelash. 

  • A short microscopic hairlike organelle projecting from a eukaryotic cell (such as a unicellular organism or one cell of a multicelled organism) which serve either for propulsion by causing currents in the surrounding fluid or as sensors. 

fiber

noun
  • A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue. 

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

  • A material in the form of fibers. 

  • 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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