Filament
nounid
56198·updated May 18, 2026verified
a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current
polysemous
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Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- filumstrand
- plural
- Filaments
- possessive
- Filament's
- pluralpossessive
- Filaments'
Framework definitions
- §1
- a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current
- §2
- a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)
- §3
- the stalk of a stamen
- §4
- a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
- §1 · legacy_primary
- a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric currentDR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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