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Another word for filament

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Noun

  1. A very fine continuous strand

      1. A light, fine, stringlike length of material made up of two or more fibers or strands of spun cotton, flax, silk, etc. twisted together and used in sewing
      2. Any of the yarns of which a fabric is woven
      3. A similar fine length of synthetic material, as nylon or plastic, or of glass or metal
      1. (Biology) Any fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants
      2. (Anatomy) A threadlike fiber or filament, such as a myofibril or neurofibril, that is a constituent of a cell or larger structure.
      3. A small fiber, esp. a component of a larger fiber
      1. Any such thread or structure
      2. Any of various elongated cells or threadlike structures, especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber.
      3. Strength of character; fortitude:
    See also:

    thing

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Another word for filament

Noun
      1. Any thin line, stratum, vein, stream, ray, etc.
      2. A light, fine, stringlike length of material made up of two or more fibers or strands of spun cotton, flax, silk, etc. twisted together and used in sewing
      3. A similar fine length of synthetic material, as nylon or plastic, or of glass or metal
      1. A wispy or curly strand of hair, often clinging to the face or neck
      2. (Botany) A thin, spirally coiling stem that attaches a plant to its support.
      3. A twisting, slender structure by which a plant, such as a grape or cucumber, twines around and often climbs an object or another plant.
      1. Metal that has been drawn out into a strand or rod, used chiefly for structural support, as in concrete, and for conducting electricity, when it is usually insulated with a rubber or plastic cladding:
      2. (Horse Racing) A wire above the finish line of a race
      3. Wire netting or other wirework
    See also:

    fiber

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Sentence Examples

  • Each palpacle is a tactile filament, very extensile, without accessory filaments or nematocysts.

  • Denoting the cross-section a of a filament by dS and its mass by dm, the quantity wdS/dm is called the vorticity; this is the same at all points of a filament, and it does not change during the motion; and the vorticity is given by w cos edS/dm, if dS is the oblique section of which the normal makes an angle e with the filament, while the aggregate vorticity of a mass M inside a surface S is M - l fw cos edS.

  • Cephalic shield continuous with neck; twelve to fourteen stomachal plates; a posterior pallial filament passing through a notch in shell.

  • In short, the little chisel becomes in his fingers a painters brush, and when it is remembered that, the basis upon which he works being simply a thread of silk, his hand must be trained to such delicacy of muscular effort as to be capable of arresting the edge of the knile at varying depths within the diameter of the tiny filament, the difficulty of the achievement will be understood.

  • Tungsten has been applied in the manufacture of filament electric lamps.

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