Meaning of FILAMENT
| Pronunciation: | | 'filumunt
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current
- [n] a threadlike anatomical structure or chainlike series of cells
- [n] the stalk of a stamen
- [n] a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
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| | Synonyms: | | fibril, filum, strand |
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| | See Also: | | anatomical structure, barb, bodily structure, body structure, bulb, chromatid, cobweb, complex body part, conducting wire, electric light, electric-light bulb, fiber, fibre, gossamer, hair, hypha, incandescent lamp, light bulb, lightbulb, myofibril, myofibrilla, paraphysis, pilus, rhizoid, sarcostyle, stalk, stem, structure, wire | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fil"a*ment\, n. [F. filament, fr. L. filum thread. See
{File} a row.]
A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp.
(Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the
anther.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | The stalk of a stamen; a thread one or more cells thick; in cyanobacteria, a trichome enclosed in a mucilaginous sheath. Compare anther. |
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