Filament

//ˈfɪləmənt// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A fine thread or wire.
  2. 2
    a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current wordnet
  3. 3
    Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.

    "Lighting was unimaginative for the standard stock with naked tungsten filament bulbs and metal reflectors. However, all compartments had individual reading lights above the seats with attractive glass shades."

  4. 4
    a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) wordnet
  5. 5
    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"

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  1. 6
    the stalk of a stamen wordnet
  2. 7
    The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.
  3. 8
    a very slender natural or synthetic fiber wordnet
  4. 9
    A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.
  5. 10
    A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.; A spool of plastic used as a material for 3D-printed objects.

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin fīlāmentum, from Late Latin fīlō (“to spin, draw out in a long line”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”).

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