Filament Definition

fĭlə-mənt
filaments
noun
filaments
A very slender thread or fiber.
Webster's New World
A threadlike part.
Webster's New World
The stalk of a stamen bearing the anther.
Webster's New World

Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.

Wiktionary

(physics, astronomy) 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.

Solar filament.
Galaxy filament.
The Ursa Major Filament.
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Noun

Singular:
filament
Plural:
filaments

Origin of Filament

  • New Latin fīlāmentum from Late Latin fīlāre to spin from Latin fīlum thread gwhī- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Medieval Latin filamentum, from Late Latin filare (“to spin, draw out in a long line”), from Latin filum (“thread”)

    From Wiktionary

Filament Sentence Examples

  • Each palpacle is a tactile filament, very extensile, without accessory filaments or nematocysts.

  • Cephalic shield continuous with neck; twelve to fourteen stomachal plates; a posterior pallial filament passing through a notch in shell.

  • Indeed the genus Oedogonium exhibits a high degree of specialization in its reproductive system, considering that its thallus has not advanced beyond the stage of an unbranched filament.

  • The anther is developed before the filament, and is always sessile in the first instance, and sometimes continues so.

  • The anther-lobes are united to the connective, which is either continuous with the filament or articulated with it.

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Words Starting With

FFIFIL

Words Ending With

TNTENT

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