FILAMENT

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

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Etymology

Noun

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

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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

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