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fiber-optics

fiber-optics is the alternative spelling of fibre optics.

Meaning of fibre optics

Noun

fibre optics (uncountable)

  1. The transmission of light through fine flexible glass or plastic fibres, especially as a medium for communications networks.

Questions about fiber-optics

What is fiber-optics the alternative spelling of?
Fiber-optics is the alternative spelling of fibre optics.

Words near fiber-optics in the dictionary

  1. fiber optics
  2. fiber plant
  3. fiber plants
  4. fiber-clay
  5. fiber-optic
  6. fiber-optics
  7. fiberal
  8. fiberals
  9. fiberboard
  10. fiberboards
  11. fiberclay

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fiber-optics (page history and authors); fibre optics (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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