microfibers

noun

plural of microfiber
as in fibers

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Recent Examples of microfibers Cotton clothes are lint shedders, microfibers are lint attractors and when washed together, microfiber fleece ends up covered with little balls of lint. — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 15 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for microfibers
  1. fibers
  2. filaments
  3. threads
Noun
  • This asymmetric expression could rig up motor circuitry, such as an abundance of neurons with long, signal-carrying fibers, that leads to more involuntary movement on one side than the other.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 13 July 2026
  • Weightlifting, for example, is supposed to cause very small tears in your muscle fibers and your muscle cells to swell.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 12 July 2026
Definition of fibers
Noun
  • Noctilucent clouds usually appear low in the sky as pale blue, silver or sometimes faintly gold ripples and filaments.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 10 July 2026
  • Most crucially, the authors said these filaments were oriented in certain directions more than others.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 9 July 2026
Definition of filaments
Noun
  • If their knowledge stays in meetings or Slack threads, the rest of the organization falls behind.
    — Panos Siozos, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • Main storm threads are frequent lightning strikes, gusty winds, small hail and locally heavy rainfall, according to NWS Melbourne.
    — Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2026
Definition of threads

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