Definitions for "sliver"
A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning.
A continuous strand or rope of parallel alpaca fibers approximately uniform in a cross-sectional area, and without twist. A product of the carding and drawing process; carded slivers are blended prior to combing in the manufacture of worsted yarn.
The loose, untwisted strand of cotton FIBERS produced on the CARDING MACHINE, DRAWING FRAME, and COMBING MACHINE.
Keywords:  splinter, slice, thin, fragment, strips
To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.
A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment, as of glass; a splinter.
Bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. Kibblings.
a tetrahedron whose four vertices lie close to a plane and whose perpendicular projection to that plane is a convex quadrilateral with no short edge
a tetrahedron whose vertices are almost coplanar and whose circumradius is not much larger than its shortest edge length
"Sliver" is a song by the band Nirvana. It was originally released as a non-album single in 1990 by Sub Pop Records (SP-073, outside the USA through Tupelo). It later appeared on their compilation album Incesticide in 1992 and their 2002 'best of' album Nirvana.
Music from the Motion Picture Sliver is a soundtrack album for the 1993 movie Sliver.
A term used to describe the geometry of a fibrous glass reinforcement in the forming operation, e.g., 2K37 S/2 meaning a configuration in forming which makes a nominal fiber diameter in the "K" range which is 3700 yards to a pound and is split into two discrete bundles in the forming cake. [Cloest equivalent in glass fiber to the term "tow" in carbon fiber nomenclature
Remnant of propellant or fuel in solid or hybrid motors as a consequence of initial geometry.
Sliver (1991) is a novel by U.S. author Ira Levin about the mysterious goings-on in a privately owned New York highrise apartment building, especially after a new tenant -- an attractive young woman working in publishing -- has moved in. Phillip Noyce directed the film based on the book, which was released in 1993.
A gap or overlap that is generated by combining two or more coverages that are not coincident or perfectly conflated.
Keywords:  flake, narrow, long
A long, narrow flake.
A continuous assembly of slightly bonded discontinuous filaments in a practically parallel arrangement (according to ISO/DIS 13922).
Keywords:  wood, form
form into slivers; "sliver wood"