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(1):

(n.) Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.

(2):

(n.) A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.

(3):

(n.) Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber.

(4):

(n.) One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.