filament

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  1. noun A fine or thinly spun thread, fiber, or wire.
  2. noun Botany The stalk that bears the anther in a stamen.
  3. noun Botany A chainlike series of cells, as in many algae.
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  • After some changes dictated by experience, this artificial filament was adopted in the manufacture of lamps. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • The second type was previously unknown to science: it is a single, unbranched filament which is much longer than those seen before on theropod dinosaurs. —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
  • Solidifying the case for a filament might be possible by observing objects lying behind the void. —  dailyindia.com News Feed
  • In MACSJ0717, a 13-million-light-year-long stream of galaxies, gas and dark matter - known as a filament - is pouring into a region already full of galaxies.
  • Its 13-million-light-year-long stream of galaxies, gas and dark matter - known as a filament - is pouring into a region already full of galaxies. —  Universe Today
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filament:   filaments
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  1. New Latin fīlāmentum, from Late Latin fīlāre, to spin, from Latin fīlum, thread; see gwhī- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French filament = Spanish Portuguese Italian filamento, from New Latin filamentum, from Middle Latin filare, wind thread, spin, from Latin filum, thread: see file.
 

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