filament
21FILAMENT — n. m. Petit fil, petit brin long et délié, semblable à celui qui se tire de l’écorce du chanvre ou du lin. Les filaments des plantes. Les filaments d’une écorce. Lampe électrique à filaments métalliques. En termes d’Anatomie, il est quelquefois… …
22filament — filamented, adj. /fil euh meuhnt/, n. 1. a very fine thread or threadlike structure; a fiber or fibril: filaments of gold. 2. a single fibril of natural or synthetic textile fiber, of indefinite length, sometimes several miles long. 3. a long… …
23filament — (Order Diplostraca): Slender, basally forked projection on dorsal surface of telson. Relative position within series of spines on telson is of taxonomic importance. (Syn. forked filament) [Stachowitsch, 1992] …
24filament — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Threadlike fiber Nouns 1. filament, line; fiber, fibril; funicle, vein, hair, capillament, capillary, cilium, tendril, gossamer; hairline. 2. string, chord, thread, cotton, sewing silk, twine, twist;… …
25filament — • fiber, tråd, tåga, sträng, filament …
26filament — [[t]fɪ̱ləmənt[/t]] filaments N COUNT A filament is a very thin piece or thread of something, for example the piece of wire inside a light bulb …
27Filament — A coil of tungsten wire suspended in a vacuum or inert gas filled bulb. When heated by electricity the tungsten filament glows …
28filament — noun the fragile filament inside the bulb Syn: fiber, thread, strand; technical fibril …
29filament — fil•a•ment [[t]ˈfɪl ə mənt[/t]] n. 1) a very fine thread or threadlike structure; a fiber or fibril: filaments of gold[/ex] 2) bot the stalklike portion of a stamen, supporting the anther 3) elm (in an incandescent lamp) the threadlike conductor …
30filament — /ˈfɪləmənt / (say filuhmuhnt) noun 1. a very fine thread or thread like structure; a fibre or fibril. 2. a single element of textile fibre (as silk), or mechanically produced fibre (as rayon or nylon). 3. Botany a. the stalk like portion of a… …
