filament
(noun) a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current
filament, filum
(noun) a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)
filament
(noun) the stalk of a stamen
fibril, filament, strand
(noun) a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
Source: WordNet® 3.1
filament (plural filaments)
A fine thread or wire.
Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
(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.
(botany) The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.
(textiles) A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.
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Source: Wiktionary
Fil"a*ment, n. Etym: [F. filament, fr. L. filum thread. See File a row.]
Definition: A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 June 2025
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
