Filament
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current
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Senses
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a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)
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the stalk of a stamen
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a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- filumstrand
- plural
- Filaments
- possessive
- Filament's
- pluralpossessive
- Filaments'