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
  • That’s why to create the material, the research team produced microscopic fibers containing a purple metal-organic framework (MOF) and zinc oxide nanoparticles.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Its premium European white down fill (85% clusters, 15% down fibers) sits inside a 100% cotton sateen shell that's smooth to the touch and free of the static cling that synthetic alternatives tend to create.
    — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of fibers
Noun
  • The top glass also slides backward, allowing the heat from the chamber to vent out the top of the machine for softer filaments like PLA and TPU.
    — Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Inspired by spider silk, AMSilk uses fermentation to create silk proteins that are then turned into filaments.
    — Sarah Jones, Footwear News, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of filaments
Noun
  • And some 5,000 miles away, at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery in the UK, there’s yet another version — this one elongated and olive-shaped, with its threads of color more spaced apart.
    — Stephy Chung, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The feature can read, draft and send texts on a user's behalf, search through conversation history, and summarize threads.
    — Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of threads

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