Wiktionary
alt. Any fiber made by extruding a synthetic substance through spinnerets to make a thread. n. Any fiber made by extruding a synthetic substance through spinnerets to make a thread.
WordNet
n. created from natural materials or by chemical processes [syn: man-made fiber]
Wikipedia
Synthetic fibers are the result of extensive research by scientists to improve on naturally occurring animal and plant fibers. In general, synthetic fibers are created by extruding fiber forming materials through spinnerets into air and water, forming a thread. Before synthetic fibers were developed, artificially manufactured fibers were made from polymers obtained from petrochemicals. These fibers are called synthetic or artificial fibers. Some fibers are manufactured from plant-derived cellulose.
Usage examples of "synthetic fiber".
These tests revealed that the humanoids could eat all bark, root, branch, leaf, grass, moss, fungus, and lichen samples given to them, together with leather, rubber, cotton, wool, synthetic fiber, chalk, every kind of normal food, spice, and flavoring in the camp, plus soap, grease, wallboard, a variety of plastics, and engine oil.
Rayon, the first synthetic fiber, is simply stabilized guncotton, or nitrated cloth, the basic explosive of the 19th Century.
Primates of various species swung above the compound on a network of synthetic fiber ropes.
It too was made of synthetic fiber ventilated on a lace foundation and attached to his skin with spirit gum.
She wore a simple shift of synthetic fiber tied at the waist with a strand of silk.
He'd sat around while chemists toyed with the silk gene to create a synthetic fiber that changed color automatically.
The ropes were a nine-gauge synthetic fiber, no bigger than my little finger and slippery with ice.
His clothing was of synthetic fiber, as was true of that of the others, but unlike the others', his shirt and trousers were ornamented with brass buttons that were large and bulky.
Ours clopped after us through what was apparently a kitchen, across a smooth substance that must have been linoleum tileI didn't think it looked all that badbut the sound of their hooves was muffled when we emerged into a much larger room, because it was carpeted in synthetic fiber of a sickly beige color.