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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Medieval Latin fīlāmentum, from Late Latin fīlō (“to spin, draw out in a long line”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈfɪləmənt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]filament (plural filaments)
- A fine thread or wire.
- Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
- 1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 398:
- Lighting was unimaginative for the standard stock with naked tungsten filament bulbs and metal reflectors. However, all compartments had individual reading lights above the seats with attractive glass shades.
- (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.
- solar filament
- galaxy filament
- the Ursa Major Filament
- (botany) The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.
- (textiles) A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.
Derived terms
[edit]- biofilament
- cofilament
- filamental
- filamentary
- filamentation
- filamented
- filamenteous
- filamentiferous
- filamenting
- filamentless
- filamentlike
- filamentoid
- filamentous
- filament tape
- filamin
- galaxy filament
- granulofilament
- heterofilament
- homofilament
- interfilament
- intermediate filament
- macrofilament
- melanofilament
- microfilament
- minifilament
- monofilament
- multifilament
- myofilament
- nanofilament
- neurofilament
- nonfilament
- nucleofilament
- polyfilament
- protofilament
- pseudofilament
- sliding filament model
- superfilament
- tonofilament
Translations
[edit]fine thread or wire
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wire in an incandescent light bulb
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stalk of a stamen in a flower
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continuous object, limited in length only by its spool
Anagrams
[edit]Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]filament m inan
Declension
[edit]Declension of filament (hard masculine inanimate)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | filament | filamenty |
genitive | filamentu | filamentů |
dative | filamentu | filamentům |
accusative | filament | filamenty |
vocative | filamente | filamenty |
locative | filamentu | filamentech |
instrumental | filamentem | filamenty |
Further reading
[edit]- “filament”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Medieval Latin fīlāmentum.
Noun
[edit]filament n (singular definite filamentet, plural indefinite filamenter)
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Declension
[edit]Declension of filament
neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | filament | filamentet | filamenter | filamenterne |
genitive | filaments | filamentets | filamenters | filamenternes |
References
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]filament m (plural filaments)
Further reading
[edit]- “filament”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Medieval Latin fīlāmentum.
Noun
[edit]filament n (definite singular filamentet, indefinite plural filament or filamenter, definite plural filamenta or filamentene)
- a filament
References
[edit]- “filament” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Medieval Latin fīlāmentum.
Noun
[edit]filament n (definite singular filamentet, indefinite plural filament, definite plural filamenta)
- a filament
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French filament, from Latin filamentum.
Noun
[edit]filament n (plural filamente)
Declension
[edit]Declension of filament
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) filament | filamentul | (niște) filamente | filamentele |
genitive/dative | (unui) filament | filamentului | (unor) filamente | filamentelor |
vocative | filamentule | filamentelor |
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