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fiber

noun as in strand of material

noun as in texture

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He continues to favor Telekom Malaysia for its extensive fiber infrastructure, submarine cable network and solid balance sheet.

Oligodendrocytes, the cells that produce myelin to insulate nerve fibers, expressed fewer genes required for maintaining and regenerating the myelin sheath.

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"The biggest surprise about this was finding that a macrophage has a synaptic-like property that delivers an ion to a muscle fiber to facilitate its repair after an injury," Jankowski says.

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Whitney’s 1793 invention of the cotton gin, a machine that removed seeds easily from the plant’s white, fluffy fibers, allowed one person to do the work of dozens of people using their hands.

By attaching small copper oxide particles to carbon fibers, they were able to observe how the material responds when the applied voltage becomes increasingly negative.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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