ALL meanings of filament
fil·a·ment
F f - noun filament (in a light bulb or other incandescent lamp) the threadlike conductor, often of tungsten, in the bulb that is heated to incandescence by the passage of current. 1
- noun filament Electronics. the heating element (sometimes also acting as a cathode) of a vacuum tube, resembling the filament in an incandescent bulb. 1
- noun filament Astronomy. a solar prominence, as viewed within the sun's limb. 1
- noun filament fine strand, wire, or thread 1
- noun filament electrical wire in a lamp 1
- noun filament A slender threadlike object or fiber, esp. one found in animal or plant structures. 1
- noun filament a very fine thread or threadlike structure; a fiber or fibril: filaments of gold. 1
- noun filament a single fibril of natural or synthetic textile fiber, of indefinite length, sometimes several miles long. 1
- noun filament a long slender cell or series of attached cells, as in some algae and fungi. 1
- noun filament Botany. the stalklike portion of a stamen, supporting the anther. 1
- noun filament Ornithology. the barb of a down feather. 1
- noun filament A fine thread or wire. 0
- noun filament Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve. 0
- noun filament (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. 0
- noun filament (botany) The stalk of a stamen in a flower, supporting the anther. 0
- noun filament (textiles) A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length. 0
- countable noun filament A filament is a very thin piece or thread of something, for example the piece of wire inside a light bulb. 0
- noun filament the thin wire, usually tungsten, inside a light bulb that emits light when heated to incandescence by an electric current 0
- noun filament a high-resistance wire or ribbon, forming the cathode in some valves 0
- noun filament a single strand of a natural or synthetic fibre; fibril 0
- noun filament the stalk of a stamen 0
- noun filament any of the long slender chains of cells into which some algae and fungi are divided 0
- noun filament the barb of a down feather 0
- noun filament any slender structure or part, such as the tail of a spermatozoon; filum 0
- noun filament a long structure of relatively cool material in the solar corona 0
- noun filament a long large-scale cluster of galaxies 0
- noun filament a very slender thread or fiber 0
- noun filament a threadlike part 0
- noun filament the fine metal wire in a light bulb which becomes incandescent when heated by an electric current 0
- noun filament the cathode of a thermionic tube, usually in the form of a wire, which may be electrically heated 0
- noun filament the stalk of a stamen bearing the anther 0
- noun filament A filament is the thin wire inside a light bulb that emits light when heated by an electric current. 0