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1. fiber optics, fiberoptics, fibre optics, fibreoptics(noun)

   the transmission of light signals via glass fibers

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1. Fiber optics(n.)

   that branch of optics which studies the transmission of light through thin transparent fibers. Light transmission through optical fibers has become an important means of data and telephone signal transmission, in some areas superseding the carrying of vioce and data signals through electrical pulses over copper wire. It is also used for directly carrying images from otherwise inaccessible locations, as from inside the body, for medical procedures. Light transmission via fiber optics for data transmission uses an optical fiber made of specially purified glass with low light absorption characteristics.

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Fiber Optics in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Fiber Optics in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

1. Keoki Jackson:

   Fiber-optics lasers are revolutionizing direct energy systems, we are investing in every component of the system – from the optics and beam control to the laser itself – to drive size, weight, and power efficiencies.

2. Andrew Schneider:

   The day is coming, and it ain't going to be long, when you ain't even gonna have to leave your living room. No more schools, nor more bodegas, no more tabernacles, no more cinneplexes. You're going to snuggle up to your fiber optics baby and bliss out.

3. Geoffrey Marcy:

   If the Milky Way actually has other intelligent species sending their spacecraft across the galaxy to settle around other stars on other planets, they might communicate using lasers, there could be a galactic Internet not borne by copper wires, not borne by fiber optics, but carried by laser beams crisscrossing the galaxy.

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