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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
optical fibre
noun
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▪ An optical fibre uses total internal reflection to carry a light beam over long distance and around corners.
▪ IskraTEL specialists are currently laying optical fibre cables to connect the city's exchanges.
▪ It also explains why it is virtually certain that Britain's main trunk lines will rely on optical fibre.
▪ It is interesting to examine the optical fibre before using it in the communications system.
▪ Next came an all-optical experiment using an optical fibre as nonlinear medium { 32 }, demonstrating 12 and chaos.
▪ The characteristics of optical fibre change with temperature, sufficiently to change the required magnetic field period.
▪ The obstacle to optical fibre communication is lift loss due to impurities in the glass.
▪ You will also need a length of optical fibre.
Wiktionary
optical fibre

alt. A thin, transparent, flexible fibre, made of glass or plastic, used for transmitting light. n. A thin, transparent, flexible fibre, made of glass or plastic, used for transmitting light.

WordNet
optical fibre

n. a very thin fiber made of glass that functions as a waveguide for light; used in bundles to transmit images [syn: optical fiber, glass fiber, glass fibre]

Usage examples of "optical fibre".

Chris Brimley didn't know it was her on the other end of the optical fibre, didn't know where the Frankenstein had been infiltrated into the sewer system.

Miscowsky was linked to the central communications computer through an optical fibre phone line, as thin and flexible as a thread.

Where its spinal cortex would normally be there was a cluster of man-made hardware with a string of optical fibre looping away from it and leading back to the throne.