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Glass Fiber

Definition: Glass Fiber

Glass Fiber

Noun

1. A very thin fiber made of glass that functions as a waveguide for light; used in bundles to transmit images.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Glass Fiber

Synonyms: glass fibre (n), optical fiber (n), optical fibre (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Glass Fiber

English words defined with "glass fiber": glass fibreoptical fiber, optical fibre. (references)
Specialty definitions using "glass fiber": FLOOR WINDERglass textile, gut winderinflatable sealmagnetic level coil, MANNEQUIN-MOLD MAKER, METALLIZATION EQUIPMENT TENDER, SEMICONDUCTORS, mold makerPLASTIC MOLDERSUTURE WINDER, HAND. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Glass Fiber

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References

  • The World Market for Glass Fiber Slivers, Rovings, Yarn, and Chopped Strands: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Complete Amateur Boat Building in Wood, Glass Fiber and Metal (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Glass Fiber

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  glass fiber

28
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Glass Fiber

Language Translations for "glass fiber"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

verre tissé. (various references)

   

German

  

Glasfasermatte (glass fiber mattress, glass fibre matress). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

グノーシス主義 (bat boy, Generally Recognied as Safe list, gladiolus, gladius, glasnost, glass, glass boat, glass fiber pole, glass fiber rod, glass fiber ski, glass wool, glider, gnosis, Gnosticism, gradation, gradient, granulated, graphic equalizer, GRAS list, grass, grass court, grass ski, grassroots democracy, gratin, grind, grinder, ground boy, ground hostess, ground manners, ground rule, ground stroke, ground zero, groundkeeper, grout, grouting, sports ground, sports oval, thank you), ガラス繊維 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

グラスファイバー , ガラスせ"い. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

assglay iberfay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Glass Fiber

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: fiberglass, fibreglass.

Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-g-i-l-r-s-s"

-2 letters: barflies, garbless, glassier.

-3 letters: abseils, airless, bailers, barless, beflags, braises, braless, brasils, brassie, fablers, falsies, fragile, fraises, friable, garbles, gassier, gerbils, glaires, glassie, grilses, largess, ligases, resails, ribless, sailers, serails, serials, silages.

-4 letters: abseil, aisles, argils, argles, ariels, arises, bagels, bailer, balers, barges, basils, beflag, belgas, biases, bilges, birles, birses, blares, blears, brails.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-f-g-i-l-r-s-s"
 

+2 letters: fiberglassed, fiberglasses, fibreglasses.

 

+3 letters: fiberglassing.

 

+5 letters: refrangibleness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Glass Fiber


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 6C 61 73 73      46 69 62 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01101100 01100001 01110011 01110011 00100000 01000110 01101001 01100010 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#108 &#97 &#115 &#115 &#32 &#70 &#105 &#98 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 006C 0061 0073 0073      0046 0069 0062 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

417867858524075687184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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