muscle fiber

Questions about muscle fiber

What is another word for muscle fiber?

It depends which muscle fiber you mean. In the sense “an elongated contractile cell that forms the muscles of the body”, the synonyms are muscle cell, muscle fibre. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of muscle fiber?

WordNet records no antonym for muscle fiber. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for muscle fiber come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of muscle fiber

• Full entry for muscle fiberAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for muscle fiberWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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