fiber vs filament

fiber

noun
  • A kind of lightweight thread of execution. 

  • 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). 

  • 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. 

filament

noun
  • A fine thread or wire. 

  • A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length. 

  • The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther. 

  • Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve. 

  • A massive, thread-like structure, such as those gaseous ones which extend outward from the surface of the sun, or such as those (much larger) ones which form the boundaries between large voids in the universe. 

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