the fibration in homotopy theory

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I would like to see why here the name "fibration" has been chosen. What precisely are the fibres (threads) in this definition? The name is standard, but I have never seen its origin.

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A fibration is a generalization of a fiber bundle (as it says at the link in your post), where the intuition is clearer. There is even a helpful picture of a hairbrush on that wikipedia page, to aid one's intuition.