Filament
Word | FILAMENT |
Character | 8 |
Hyphenation | fil a ment |
Pronunciations | /ˈfɪləmənt/ |
Definitions and meanings of "Filament"
What do we mean by filament?
A fine or very thin thread or fiber. noun
A slender or threadlike structure or part, especially. noun
A fine wire that is heated electrically to produce light in an incandescent lamp. noun
The stalk that bears the anther in the stamen of a flower. noun
A chainlike series of cells, as in many algae. noun
A long thin cellular structure characteristic of many fungi, usually having multiple nuclei and often divided by septa. noun
Any of various long thin celestial objects or phenomena, such as a solar filament. noun
In geometrical topics, a movable object which at any one instant, or indivisible determination of time, is at every part of a line. During a lapse of time a filament is restricted to being in some surface, which it is said to generate. noun
A long threadlike bacterial growth. noun
A fine untwisted thread; a separate fiber or fibril of any vegetable or animal tissue or product, natural or artificial, or of a fibrous mineral: as, a filament of silk, wool, cobweb, or asbestos; a cortical or muscular filament. noun
Specifically In botany, the support of an anther, usually slender and stalk-like, but very variable in form. noun
In ornithology, the part of a down-feather corresponding to the barb of an ordinary feather. noun
A tenuous thread of any substance, as glass or mucus; hence, in medicine, a glairy substance sometimes contained in urine, capable of being drawn out into threads or strings. noun
The nearly infusible conductor placed in the globe of an incandescent lamp or glow-lamp and raised to incandescence by the passage of the current. It is usually some form of carbon, although metals with high points of fusion have been used. noun
A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber noun
A fine thread or wire. noun
Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve. noun
A massive, thread-like structure, such as those gaseous ones which extend outward from the surface of the sun, or such as those (much larger) ones which form the boundaries between large voids in the universe. noun
The stalk of a stamen in a flower, supporting the anther. noun
A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length. noun
A fine thread or wire.
Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
A massive, thread-like structure, such as those gaseous ones which extend outward from the surface of the sun, or such as those (much larger) ones which form the boundaries between large voids in the universe.
The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.
A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.
Synonyms and Antonyms for Filament
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