fabric vs fiber

fabric

noun
  • A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth. 

  • Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed. 

  • The framework underlying a structure. 

  • The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock. 

  • The texture of a cloth. 

verb
  • To cover with fabric. 

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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