An unruly lock or section of hair that sticks straight out from the skull or lies at an angle at odds with the rest of an individual's hair, like a whorl or vortex.
A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
A material in the form of fibers.
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.