fibered

[ fahy-berd ]

adjective

1. (of plaster) having an admixture of hair or fiber.

Other Words From

• multi·fibered adjective
• un·fibered adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of fibered¹

First recorded in 1770–80; fiber + -ed ³

Example Sentences

On the brown walls of the flattened, overlapping leaves of the sturdy fibered guano there was a picture in color of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and another of the Virgin of Cobre.

From Literature

The following year, Wise built on this finding to show that all Haken manifolds are virtually fibered; that is, there is a way to unroll a Haken manifold to produce a finite cover that opens up the complicated topology of the guts, resulting in a simple fibered manifold.

From Scientific American

Thus, if a manifold is virtually Haken, then it also must be virtually fibered.

From Scientific American

The manifold is said to be fibered because if you imagine stretching out the thickened surface so the boundary surfaces are far apart, then drawing the boundaries around to face each other before gluing them together, you can imagine that the resulting manifold is like a bracelet that has an infinitely thin surface-shaped bead at every point on the bracelet’s strand; these beads are the “fibers.”

From Scientific American

In 2008, in what Calegari calls “an astonishing breakthrough,”Agol showed that hyperbolic three-manifolds that satisfy a certain technical condition are guaranteed to be virtually fibered.

From Scientific American