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Webster 1913 Edition
Filament
Fil′a-ment
,Noun.
A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber;
esp.
(Bot.)
, the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.
Webster 1828 Edition
Filament
FIL'AMENT
,Noun.
A thread; a fiber. In anatomy and natural history, a fine thread of which flesh, nerves, skin, plants, roots, &c., and also some minerals, are composed. So the spider's web is composed of filaments. The threadlike part of the stamens of plants, is called the filament.
Definition 2024
filament
filament
English
a filament of solar material
a glowing light bulb filament
Noun
filament (plural filaments)
- A fine thread or wire.
- Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
- (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
- (botany) The stalk of a stamen in a flower, supporting the anther.
- (textiles) A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.
Translations
fine thread or wire
wire in an incandescent light bulb
stalk of a stamen in a flower
continuous object, limited in length only by its spool
Danish
Noun
filament n (singular definite filamentet, plural indefinite filamenter)
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Declension
Inflection of filament
| neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | filament | filamentet | filamenter | filamenterne |
| genitive | filaments | filamentets | filamenters | filamenternes |