optical fiber

What does optical fiber mean?

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

What is another word for optical fiber?

Close synonyms include glass fiber, optical fibre, glass fibre. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is optical fiber a common word?

optical fiber is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for optical fiber come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.