optical fibre

English

Alternative forms

• optical fiber

Noun

optical fibre (countable and uncountable, plural optical fibres)

1. (British spelling) A thin, transparent, flexible fibre, made of glass or plastic, used for transmitting light.

Translations

fibre used for transmitting light

• Catalan: fibra òptica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 光導纖維／光导纤维 (zh) (guāngdǎoxiānwéi)；光纖／光纤 (zh) (guāngxiān)

• Czech: optické vlákno n
• Danish: lysleder c
• Dutch: glasvezel (nl) m
• Finnish: valokuitu (fi)
• French: fibre optique (fr) f
• German: Lichtwellenleiter (de) m
• Greek: οπτική ίνα (el) f (optikí ína)
• Icelandic: ljósleiðari (is) m
• Italian: fibra ottica (it) f
• Japanese: 光ファイバ (hikari-faiba), 光ファイバー (ja) (hikari-faibā)
• Kazakh: сәулежол (säulejol)
• Korean: 광섬유(光纖維) (ko) (gwangseomyu)
• Macedonian: оптичко влакно n (optičko vlakno)
• Polish: światłowód (pl) m
• Portuguese: fibra ótica (pt) f
• Romanian: fibră optică f
• Russian: оптоволокно́ (ru) n (optovoloknó)
• Sindhi: چَشم ريش (sd) (caśm reś)
• Swedish: optisk fiber c
• Tagalog: sugaaning himaymay
• Welsh: ffibr optig m

See also

• fibre optics

Anagrams

• optical fiber