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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
glass fibre
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Below: The range of glass fibre tubing, in this case moulded in various colours.
▪ During the summer, he had insulated the roof by filling the areas between the joists with glass fibre wool.
▪ His flying saucer, however, is made of glass fibre and runs on compressed air.
▪ It must be borne in mind that more copper equates to more adhesive holding the copper foil on to the glass fibre panel.
▪ Left: Typical of the rigid frame using glass fibre tubing on the earlier steerable deltas is seen on this example.
▪ Made from glass fibre rovings and polyester resin, it is normal for the rod to be white.
▪ Rockwool mineral wool in blanket form is an effective alternative to glass fibre.
▪ The handles are made from nylon-reinforced glass fibre for extra strength.
WordNet
glass 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, optical fibre]

Usage examples of "glass fibre".

To mitigate the effects of this, the cylinder is partially coated with shiny aluminium oxide in stripes one-eighth of an inch wide, to reflect the sun's scorching rays, and insulated with glass fibre, to keep out the ultimate cold of space.

You go to move a couple of bins full of glass fibre shred and find there’.

So you put the streak connectors in the bins of glass fibre shred.

Weldin and his crew, all men, cleaned them, repaired the ceramic and glass fibre panels where necessary, and repainted each with the ConFed logo and colours.

A clever video feed allows images to be transmitted by glass fibre to a pair of lenses fitted to 89-58's sockets.

The hull was of glass fibre and I began to ruin it by drilling holes in carefully selected places.