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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The word "filament" in example sentences

I dangled between two worlds on a thin filament and felt it fray. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A medium - to lightweight spinning setup spooled with 6 - or 8-pound mono-filament is perfect. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The lamps were of the incandescent variety, and what we now know as the filament was platinum wire. ❋ James W. Steele (N/A)

The mandibles each suddenly end in a curved, slender filament, which is probably used as a tactile organ to explore the best sites in the flesh of their victim for drawing blood. ❋ Unknown (1872)

They found evidence that a 13-million-light-year-long stream of galaxies, gas and dark matter -- known as a filament -- was causing repeated collisions in the cluster. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In MACSJ0717, a 13-million-light-year-long stream of galaxies, gas and dark matter - known as a filament - is pouring into a region already full of galaxies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Its 13-million-light-year-long stream of galaxies, gas and dark matter - known as a filament - is pouring into a region already full of galaxies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The teardrop elongates until a tail of ink, called a filament, stretches away like the tail of a comet. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Just make sure your shreds are what Anderson calls "filament" thin. ❋ FJK (2006)

The great question was and is to preserve the little filament which is heated to incandescence, and from which we get the light. ❋ J. S. Zerbe (N/A)

After attaining a high degree of perfection with these lamps, he recognized their impracticable character, and his mind reverted to the opinion he had formed in his early experiments two years before -- viz., that carbon had the requisite resistance to permit a very simple conductor to accomplish the object if it could be used in the form of a hair-like "filament," provided the filament itself could be made sufficiently homogeneous. ❋ Frank Lewis Dyer (1905)

When connected to the coil, the filament in the former glows uniformly throughout all its length; whereas in the latter, that portion of the filament which is in the centre of the bulb glows far more intensely than the rest. ❋ Nikola Tesla (1899)

These cases show that the motor impulse is not transmitted along the vessels, and they further show that there is no necessity for a direct line of communication from the filament which is [page 315] touched towards the midrib and opposite lobe, or towards the outer parts of the same lobe. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)

A number of scientists said the evidence was just degraded collagen, but others insisted that dinosaur's skin had some kind of filament covering, such as hair or feathers, possibly even the robust vaned feathers found in modern bird wings, the kind used for quills. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The second type was previously unknown to science: it is a single, unbranched filament which is much longer than those seen before on theropod dinosaurs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Reference is made to a previously known galaxy 'filament' that was discovered in an earlier study. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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