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noun
- 1. a slender threadlike object or fibre, especially one found in animal or plant structures: "each myosin filament is usually surrounded by 12 actin filaments"
- 2. a conducting wire or thread with a high melting point, forming part of an electric bulb or thermionic valve and heated or made incandescent by an electric current.
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The meaning of FILAMENT is a single thread or a thin flexible threadlike object, process, or appendage. How to use filament in a sentence.
Filament definition: a very fine thread or threadlike structure; a fiber or fibril. See examples of FILAMENT used in a sentence.
FILAMENT definition: 1. a thin thread or fibre of natural or artificial material: 2. a thin wire, especially one that…. Learn more.
FILAMENT meaning: 1. a thin thread or fibre of natural or artificial material: 2. a thin wire, especially one that…. Learn more.
A filament is the thin wire inside a light bulb that emits light when heated by an electric current. The incandescent light bulb makes light by heating a metal filament wire to a high temperature until it glows.
1. (Electrical Engineering) the thin wire, usually tungsten, inside a light bulb that emits light when heated to incandescence by an electric current. 2. (Electrical Engineering) electronics a high-resistance wire or ribbon, forming the cathode in some valves. 3. (Textiles) a single strand of a natural or synthetic fibre; fibril. 4. (Botany) botany
The stamen of a flower — the part that produces pollen — consists of a slender stalk, called a filament and an anther. The filament supports the anther, which is where pollen develops.
Definition of filament noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
a very fine thread or threadlike structure; a fiber or fibril: filaments of gold. a single fibril of natural or synthetic textile fiber, of indefinite length, sometimes several miles long. a long slender cell or series of attached cells, as in some algae and fungi.
(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. Wiktionary. More Noun Definitions (1) Synonyms: fibril.
