FIBER-OPTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fiber-optic mean? 

• FIBER-OPTIC (adjective)
  The adjective FIBER-OPTIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to fiber optics

  Familiarity information: FIBER-OPTIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIBER-OPTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to fiber optics

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

fiber-optic; fiberoptic; fibre-optic; fibreoptic

Pertainym:

fiber optics (the transmission of light signals via glass fibers)

Derivation:

fiber optics (the transmission of light signals via glass fibers)

 Context examples 

A fiber-optic device used to performed colonoscopy.

(Colonoscope, NCI Thesaurus)

A fiber-optic instrument used for examining the interior of the stomach.

(Gastroscope, NCI Thesaurus)

In a paper, researchers describe an experiment that turned 20 kilometers of undersea fiber-optic cable into the equivalent of 10,000 seismic stations along the ocean floor.

(Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network, National Science Foundation)

This allowed the researchers to turn on the heat-sensing neurons using a fiber-optic light.

(Brain cells that cool the body, NIH)

Lindsey and Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, a geophysicist at Rice University in Houston, led the experiment with the assistance of Craig Dawe of MBARI, which owns the fiber-optic cable.

(Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network, National Science Foundation)

Their technique, which they had previously tested with fiber-optic cables on land, could provide much-needed data on quakes that occur under the sea surface, where few seismic stations exist.

(Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network, National Science Foundation)

Fiber-optic cables in a global undersea telecommunications network could one day help scientists study offshore earthquakes and the geologic structures hidden deep beneath the ocean surface.

(Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network, National Science Foundation)

The goal of the researchers' efforts is to use fiber-optic networks around the world — more than 10 million kilometers in all, on both land and under the sea — as sensitive measures of Earth's movement, allowing earthquake monitoring in regions that don't have ground stations such as those that dot much of earthquake-prone California and the Pacific Coast.

(Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network, National Science Foundation)