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carbon fibre
(car¦bon fibre)
noun
[
mass noun
]
a material consisting of thin, strong crystalline filaments of carbon, used as a strengthening material, especially in resins and ceramics:
[
as modifier
]
:
a carbon-fibre brake disc
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