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  • noun Alternative spelling of fibre optics.

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Examples

  • Jockeys' silks lighting up using fibre-optics after the race?

    Tony McCoy | Small Talk 2011

  • Abandoned right-of-ways have been the darlings of fibre-optics networks.

    Vancouver says goodbye to Olympic streetcar « Stephen Rees's blog 2010

  • According to the Death Clock 'site, that gives me eight years to use my Blackberry I want for Xmas the year fibre-optics and satellites do appear on our horizon.

    Radiohead announces Katie 2008

  • If the business proponents of the third fibre-optics cable wish to have the capability, which this cable will give them, of competing in the long haul telecommunications marketplace, then I say let them build the cable themselves with their own money.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Ed Hollett 2006

  • ISTR seeing a documentary on the BBC a few years back Desmond Morris' "The Human Animal", IIRC where they actually filmed using tiny cameras and fibre-optics, inside a woman's vagina while she had an orgasm.

    Mind Hacks: No function for the female orgasm ? 2005

  • The industry has been radully restructuring into producing chemicals, fibre-optics, lasers, aviation equipment, telecommunication and photographic equipment.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • •Hydro and ultra broadband fibre-optics networks installation necessary to attract high-value employment;

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Jack Diamond 2011

  • •Hydro and ultra broadband fibre-optics networks installation necessary to attract high-value employment;

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Jack Diamond 2011

  • In this celestial world we currently occupy, the cars are German, the washing-machines are German, the fibre-optics are German, the high-value medical scanners are German and the machine-tools are German.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Boris Johnson 2012

  • In 2010, the focus will be on trend topics including fibre-optics, photovoltaic, safety technology, LED technology and medical technology.

    physicsworld.com: all content 2010

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