See fiber in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2008, Joe Duffy, Concurrent Programming on Windows, Pearson Education, →ISBN, unnumbered page:",
"text": "We've seen how to create a new fiber and convert the current thread into a fiber (which continues to run after the conversion), but we have yet to focus on how to schedule a new fiber onto the current thread.",
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"A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue."
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"(cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue."
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