Filament synonyms

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wire
(Uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
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fibril
A long strand of proteins that are aggregated together in a beta-sheet structure; an amyloid fibril.
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tendril
A threadlike part of a climbing plant, often in a spiral form, supporting it by clinging to or coiling around an object
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fiber (related)
The definition of a fiber is a thin, threadlike structure that combines to form animal or plant tissue, or a thin, threadlike structure made synthetically or from minerals.
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hair
A slender growth resembling a mammalian hair, found on insects and other animals.
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stalk
Stalk is defined as a plant's main stem.
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strand
A complex of fibers or filaments that have been twisted together to form a cable, rope, thread, or yarn.
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thing (related)
A particular state of affairs; a situation:
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flower (related)
The highest example or best representative:
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prominence (related)
(Astron.) Any of the luminous clouds of solar gas arching from the chromosphere into the much hotter corona: best seen at the edge of the sun, as during an eclipse
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filum
(Anat.) Any threadlike part; filament
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coil (related)
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cilium (related)
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dendrite (related)
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electrode (related)
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membrane (related)
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lamella (related)
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lamina (related)
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microtubules (related)
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substrate (related)
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dimer (related)
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molecule (related)
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thread
The definition of thread is a fine line, streak or string.
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  • Each palpacle is a tactile filament, very extensile, without accessory filaments or nematocysts.

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

  • That part of the anther to which the filament is attached is the back, the opposite being the face.

  • Hence in any infinitesimal part of the fluid the circulation is zero round every small plane curve passing through the vortex line; and consequently the circulation round any curve drawn on the surface of a vortex filament is zero.

  • These aggregations or colonies, as they are termed, may attached to muddy surfaces by rhizoids; Caulerpa, on the other, assume the form of a plate, a ring, a solid sphere, a hollow sphere, presents a remarkable instance of the way in which much the same a perforate sphere, a closed net, or a simple or branched filament.

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