glass fiber

noun

: fiberglass

Examples of glass fiber in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Toto is best known for high-end toilets, Nittobo makes textiles and glass fiber, and Ajinomoto makes MSG seasoning. — Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 22 July 2026

Today, most internet traffic travels through glass fibers using laser light. — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 13 June 2026

Their in-flight wear included a jacket and trousers made out of a fire-resistant glass fiber. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2026

The breakthrough was the development of solid-state lasers that use bundles of glass fibers doped with exotic elements like ytterbium, erbium, and thulium along with aluminum, germanium, and phosphorus. — New Atlas, 17 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1882, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for glass fiber

• prescriber
• subscriber
• transcriber
• cyber
• fibre