OPTICAL FIBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does optical fiber mean? 

• OPTICAL FIBER (noun)
  The noun OPTICAL FIBER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: OPTICAL FIBER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPTICAL FIBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

glass fiber; glass fibre; optical fiber; optical fibre

Hypernyms ("optical fiber" is a kind of...):

fiber; fibre (a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn)

Holonyms ("optical fiber" is a part of...):

fiber optic cable; fibre optic cable (a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light)

fiberscope (a flexible medical instrument involving fiber optics that is used to examine internal organs)

 Context examples 

A device designed for cutting an optical fiber and processing the ends for attachment.

(Fiberoptic Cleaver Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

A material designed to form an outer protective surface on an optical fiber.

(Fiberoptic Cladding Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

However, qubits in an optical fiber can travel only short distances before their special quantum properties are lost and the information is scrambled.

(Key Tech for Quantum Communications Offered by Implanting Diamonds with Flaws, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)