filament
A fine thread or wire.
Other meanings
Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
en-n-astro 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”
A kind of
- wire
Related words
- solar filament
- filament tape
- galaxy filament
- intermediate filament
- monofilament
- sliding filament model
- biofilament
- cofilament
- filamental
- filamentary
- filamentation
- filamented
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "fīlum" (thread).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “filament” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.