Portuguese
fibra óptica Catalan
fibra òptica 
A very thin fiber made of glass that functions as a waveguide for light; used in bundles to transmit images.
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Examples for "optical fiber"
Examples for "optical fiber"
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For the first time optical fiber was used to carry telephone traffic.
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The Company's services include installation and commissioning microwave, optical fiber and others.
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It also offers equipment for the medical, optical fiber and solar industries.
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The Company operates optical fiber business, optical cable business and new medicine business.
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An opposite recess guides the optical fiber with a diameter of 125 μm.
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As a specific example, we have experimentally evaluated this criterion for a lead- glass fiber.
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Chaff can be made of varying-length aluminum strips or metal-coated plastic or glass fiber.
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The company is also involved in new materials industries, such as the manufacturing of glass fiber and polysilicon.
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He held up a chunk of flat glass fiber composite peppered with bullet holes, then flipped it over.
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The Chemical Material segment manufactures and sells petroleum resins, polyurethane, thermoplastic polyurethane, and glass fiber reinforced plastic products, among others.
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In the phase one, we would be having approximately 70km of optical fibre.
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Contractors are stringing a high-speed optical fibre cable on existing ESB poles and connecting the houses.
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Existing cashflow also will be used, along with proceeds from a desired sale of optical fibre assets.
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The Government on Tuesday announced $700 million over three years to make business-grade optical fibre services more affordable.
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For 25 years there has been a debate about whether Britain should install a huge-capacity optical fibre network right to the home.
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The machine is made of "exceptional materials such as carbon, steel and glass fibre" and is "a complete innovation in the fitness field."
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Depression of the percentage of lymphocyte subpopulation of CD 16+56 (natural killer cells) in peripheral blood was found in glass fibre workers.
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To enable insertion with minimal trauma, glass fibres embedded in silicone were used as models.
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Coating and corrosion of glass fibres were sporadic findings.
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Of course you've seen the ink erasers made of a cluster of fine glass fibres.
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San Diego-based Firewire surfboards is using the wool to add strength to their boards instead of glass fibres.
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No mesotheliomas or other tumours of the respiratory tract were observed in hamsters treated with glass fibres alone.
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In the present study, resorbable composites comprising a PLA matrix reinforced with iron doped phosphate glass fibres were investigated.
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The insertion forces of silicone-coated glass fibres are comparable to those measured with conventional cochlear implant (CI) electrodes.
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After microscopic and other examination weeded out samples that were plant and glass fibres, Sykes' team recovered DNA from 30 hair samples.
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Even if we fixed the hardware problem and ran beautiful glass fibres capable of a gleaming gigabit per second to everyone, we'd still be stuck.
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A violent focal acute pneumonitis was evoked by the glass fibres and was followed by excessive accumulations of alveolar macrophages often loaded with glass fibres.
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So too have airborne volcanic glass fibres, called "Pele's hair" - wispy strands produced by lava fountains and carried aloft by the wind.