Definition of filament in English:

filament

noun ˈfɪləm(ə)ntˈfɪləmənt

1A slender threadlike object or fibre, especially one found in animal or plant structures.
（尤指动植物构造中的）丝
each myosin filament is usually surrounded by 12 actin filaments
每根肌球蛋白丝通常都围有12根肌动蛋白丝。
Example sentencesExamples
- He had division of the terminal filament for a tethered spinal cord, which was thought to be the cause of his symptoms.
- Her only connection to the world a tenuous filament of wires, tubes and intravenous needles.
- They are twisted masses of tiny filaments or fibers inside nerve cells.
- For example, all three contract when a rise in calcium inside the muscle cell allows interaction between actin and myosin filaments.
- We determined the dissociation constants of our mutants for skeletal muscle actin using capped filaments.
- They use it to convert energy into movement, exerted against polar actin filaments.
- On a transparent blue expanse, a swaddled figure lies in a passive curve, suspended in a heavenly hammock of spidery filaments, surrendered to the life of the mind.
- Tinted prints of Andy Warhol's inflated ‘silver clouds’ dangled on filaments in the first and second galleries.
- Place it indoors, in a quiet room, and the smoke becomes a cloud of wispy filaments, swirling gently until they all blend into a screen of gray.
- Her fur was standing on end, like filaments of wire.
Synonyms
fibre, thread, strand, tendril
1. 1.1Botany The slender part of a stamen that supports the anther.
  〔植〕（支承花药的雄蕊的）花丝
  Example sentencesExamples
  The style is enclosed in a tube formed by the five fused anthers and filaments.
  Smearing of pollen is facilitated by the fanning out of anthers borne at the ends of the filaments.
  In these flowers, the anthers are attached to the petals by short filaments half way down the corolla tube.
  At the balloon stage of flowering, petals were peeled away and the swollen anthers were removed from the filaments by rubbing the open flower on wire mesh.
  Short and long stamens were measured from the base of the filament to the tip of the anthers.
2. 1.2Astronomy A slender, elongated body of luminous gas or other material in the sun’s atmosphere, a nebula, or interstellar space.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Picking a fax out of the machine, he reviewed the hand sketches of sunspots, coronal holes, filaments, and prominences of the Sun as drawn by observers at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.
2A conducting wire or thread with a high melting point, forming part of an electric bulb or thermionic valve and heated or made incandescent by an electric current.
（电灯泡的）灯丝；（热离子管的）丝极
Example sentencesExamples
- He used a carbon filament in an oxygen-free bulb.
- A strong, alternating current heats a resistive filament, causing it to emit electrons.
- The most important factors determining the heating of a filament to incandescence are thermal mass and electrical resistance of the filament.
- The new lamp not only has the size and shape of a conventional filament bulb but also comes with a standard screw base and can therefore be fitted in any lamp or light socket.
- In one experiment, the researchers formed the yarn into a lightbulb filament and found that its strength and conductivity increased after it heated up.
- Regular incandescent light bulbs produce light by heating a small filament inside the bulb.
- But unlike ordinary incandescent bulbs, they don't have a filament that will burn out, and they don't get especially hot.
- By incorporating nanowires as filaments in bigger superconducting wires, for example, more current could be carried without being destroyed by a magnetic field.
- The filaments in the lightbulbs we'd started manufacturing kept burning up.
- It glimmers at barely 1800 degrees Fahrenheit, which is cooler than a light bulb filament.
- As he watched it burn he noticed how individual strands of the wood glowed white as they burned fiercely, and that convinced him that bamboo might be the best material to use for his light bulb filaments.
- Lewis Latimer, the son of runaway slaves, became an electrical engineer and invented an inexpensive process for making light bulb filaments.
- It is like comparing a red-hot poker pulled from a fire with the filament in an electric light bulb: there is no doubt concerning which is the brighter.
- The tungsten filament of an incandescent light is an example of a wire under extreme conditions.
- The inert gas prevents the wire filament inside the bulb from reacting chemically with oxygen and burning out quickly.
- An incandescent black light bulb is similar to a normal household light bulb, but it uses light filters to absorb the light from the heated filament.
- An incandescent light bulb contains a thin wire filament (usually tungsten) that glows hot when an electric current is run through it.
- It was as white and alive as the filament of a light bulb viewed close up.
- Unlike an incandescent bulb, no filament is needed.
- In an incandescent bulb, the filament is made of a thin piece of tungsten metal, coiled to fit inside the bulb; if it were stretched out, it would measure about 6 feet long!
Synonyms
cord, rope, string, cable, wire, thread, twine, strand, ligature

Derivatives

filamentary

adjective fɪləˈmɛnt(ə)riˌfɪləˈmɛn(t)əri

Note that, even at this early era, galaxies are clustered into filamentary structures, separated by empty voids.
Example sentencesExamples
- When viewed in a small telescope, it appears as a large elliptical haze with no trace of the many beautiful filamentary arms with a multitude of branches revealed in this striking VLT image.
- The tiny charged particles link up into chains, which go on to form filamentary networks.
- The tip may be elongate and flexible so that it packs the cavity by being folded upon itself a multiple number of times, or may pack the cavity by virtue of a filamentary or fuzzy structure of the tip.
- It is, of course, also very easy to oversimplify these connections, leaving only a filamentary network of cliches.

filamented

adjective

Perhaps the most primitive structure unit was cablelike and reflected the filamented keratin macromolecule.
Example sentencesExamples
- The semi-crystalline filamented structure provides internal support, superimposed on the structural interactions of branched structures that produce the vane of body contour and flight feathers.
- He worries that ‘a finely filamented electronic mesh has slipped between ourselves and the outside world’.
- Single- and double-barrelled microelectrodes were prepared using filamented glass as described previously.
- Single-barrelled micropipettes were made from filamented borosilicate glass tubing.

filamentous

adjective fɪləˈmɛntəs

Also, a mat of threadlike filamentous algae floating on the surface greatly increases the rate of water loss through evaporation.
Example sentencesExamples
- In this research area (as in others), yeasts and filamentous fungi have played key roles as model systems.
- I saw the honeyeaters so well that I could see the filamentous white plumes on their black throats.
- This filamentous fungus is well suited for such analysis.
- All told, filamentous growth represents a complex biological output that is influenced to a greater or lesser degree by many parameters.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French, or from modern Latin filamentum, from late Latin filare 'to spin', from Latin filum 'thread'.

Definition of filament in US English:

filament

nounˈfiləməntˈfɪləmənt

1A slender threadlike object or fiber, especially one found in animal or plant structures.
（尤指动植物构造中的）丝
each myosin filament is usually surrounded by 12 actin filaments
每根肌球蛋白丝通常都围有12根肌动蛋白丝。
Example sentencesExamples
- He had division of the terminal filament for a tethered spinal cord, which was thought to be the cause of his symptoms.
- They use it to convert energy into movement, exerted against polar actin filaments.
- Her only connection to the world a tenuous filament of wires, tubes and intravenous needles.
- Tinted prints of Andy Warhol's inflated ‘silver clouds’ dangled on filaments in the first and second galleries.
- They are twisted masses of tiny filaments or fibers inside nerve cells.
- On a transparent blue expanse, a swaddled figure lies in a passive curve, suspended in a heavenly hammock of spidery filaments, surrendered to the life of the mind.
- For example, all three contract when a rise in calcium inside the muscle cell allows interaction between actin and myosin filaments.
- We determined the dissociation constants of our mutants for skeletal muscle actin using capped filaments.
- Place it indoors, in a quiet room, and the smoke becomes a cloud of wispy filaments, swirling gently until they all blend into a screen of gray.
- Her fur was standing on end, like filaments of wire.
Synonyms
fibre, thread, strand, tendril
1. 1.1Botany The slender part of a stamen that supports the anther.
  〔植〕（支承花药的雄蕊的）花丝
  Example sentencesExamples
  In these flowers, the anthers are attached to the petals by short filaments half way down the corolla tube.
  Smearing of pollen is facilitated by the fanning out of anthers borne at the ends of the filaments.
  At the balloon stage of flowering, petals were peeled away and the swollen anthers were removed from the filaments by rubbing the open flower on wire mesh.
  Short and long stamens were measured from the base of the filament to the tip of the anthers.
  The style is enclosed in a tube formed by the five fused anthers and filaments.
2. 1.2Astronomy A slender, elongated body of luminous gas or other material in the sun’s atmosphere, a nebula, or interstellar space.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Picking a fax out of the machine, he reviewed the hand sketches of sunspots, coronal holes, filaments, and prominences of the Sun as drawn by observers at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.
2A conducting wire or thread with a high melting point, forming part of an electric bulb or vacuum tube and heated or made incandescent by an electric current.
（电灯泡的）灯丝；（热离子管的）丝极
Example sentencesExamples
- The tungsten filament of an incandescent light is an example of a wire under extreme conditions.
- It was as white and alive as the filament of a light bulb viewed close up.
- The inert gas prevents the wire filament inside the bulb from reacting chemically with oxygen and burning out quickly.
- Lewis Latimer, the son of runaway slaves, became an electrical engineer and invented an inexpensive process for making light bulb filaments.
- An incandescent light bulb contains a thin wire filament (usually tungsten) that glows hot when an electric current is run through it.
- The filaments in the lightbulbs we'd started manufacturing kept burning up.
- Unlike an incandescent bulb, no filament is needed.
- A strong, alternating current heats a resistive filament, causing it to emit electrons.
- It is like comparing a red-hot poker pulled from a fire with the filament in an electric light bulb: there is no doubt concerning which is the brighter.
- An incandescent black light bulb is similar to a normal household light bulb, but it uses light filters to absorb the light from the heated filament.
- Regular incandescent light bulbs produce light by heating a small filament inside the bulb.
- As he watched it burn he noticed how individual strands of the wood glowed white as they burned fiercely, and that convinced him that bamboo might be the best material to use for his light bulb filaments.
- In an incandescent bulb, the filament is made of a thin piece of tungsten metal, coiled to fit inside the bulb; if it were stretched out, it would measure about 6 feet long!
- In one experiment, the researchers formed the yarn into a lightbulb filament and found that its strength and conductivity increased after it heated up.
- The most important factors determining the heating of a filament to incandescence are thermal mass and electrical resistance of the filament.
- By incorporating nanowires as filaments in bigger superconducting wires, for example, more current could be carried without being destroyed by a magnetic field.
- The new lamp not only has the size and shape of a conventional filament bulb but also comes with a standard screw base and can therefore be fitted in any lamp or light socket.
- It glimmers at barely 1800 degrees Fahrenheit, which is cooler than a light bulb filament.
- He used a carbon filament in an oxygen-free bulb.
- But unlike ordinary incandescent bulbs, they don't have a filament that will burn out, and they don't get especially hot.
Synonyms
cord, rope, string, cable, wire, thread, twine, strand, ligature

Origin

Late 16th century: from French, or from modern Latin filamentum, from late Latin filare ‘to spin’, from Latin filum ‘thread’.

词汇	filament
释义	Definition of filament in English: filament noun ˈfɪləm(ə)ntˈfɪləmənt 1A slender threadlike object or fibre, especially one found in animal or plant structures. （尤指动植物构造中的）丝 each myosin filament is usually surrounded by 12 actin filaments 每根肌球蛋白丝通常都围有12根肌动蛋白丝。 Example sentencesExamples He had division of the terminal filament for a tethered spinal cord, which was thought to be the cause of his symptoms. Her only connection to the world a tenuous filament of wires, tubes and intravenous needles. They are twisted masses of tiny filaments or fibers inside nerve cells. For example, all three contract when a rise in calcium inside the muscle cell allows interaction between actin and myosin filaments. We determined the dissociation constants of our mutants for skeletal muscle actin using capped filaments. They use it to convert energy into movement, exerted against polar actin filaments. On a transparent blue expanse, a swaddled figure lies in a passive curve, suspended in a heavenly hammock of spidery filaments, surrendered to the life of the mind. Tinted prints of Andy Warhol's inflated ‘silver clouds’ dangled on filaments in the first and second galleries. Place it indoors, in a quiet room, and the smoke becomes a cloud of wispy filaments, swirling gently until they all blend into a screen of gray. Her fur was standing on end, like filaments of wire. Synonyms fibre, thread, strand, tendril 1.1Botany The slender part of a stamen that supports the anther. 〔植〕（支承花药的雄蕊的）花丝 Example sentencesExamples The style is enclosed in a tube formed by the five fused anthers and filaments. Smearing of pollen is facilitated by the fanning out of anthers borne at the ends of the filaments. In these flowers, the anthers are attached to the petals by short filaments half way down the corolla tube. At the balloon stage of flowering, petals were peeled away and the swollen anthers were removed from the filaments by rubbing the open flower on wire mesh. Short and long stamens were measured from the base of the filament to the tip of the anthers. 1.2Astronomy A slender, elongated body of luminous gas or other material in the sun’s atmosphere, a nebula, or interstellar space. Example sentencesExamples Picking a fax out of the machine, he reviewed the hand sketches of sunspots, coronal holes, filaments, and prominences of the Sun as drawn by observers at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. 2A conducting wire or thread with a high melting point, forming part of an electric bulb or thermionic valve and heated or made incandescent by an electric current. （电灯泡的）灯丝；（热离子管的）丝极 Example sentencesExamples He used a carbon filament in an oxygen-free bulb. A strong, alternating current heats a resistive filament, causing it to emit electrons. The most important factors determining the heating of a filament to incandescence are thermal mass and electrical resistance of the filament. The new lamp not only has the size and shape of a conventional filament bulb but also comes with a standard screw base and can therefore be fitted in any lamp or light socket. In one experiment, the researchers formed the yarn into a lightbulb filament and found that its strength and conductivity increased after it heated up. Regular incandescent light bulbs produce light by heating a small filament inside the bulb. But unlike ordinary incandescent bulbs, they don't have a filament that will burn out, and they don't get especially hot. By incorporating nanowires as filaments in bigger superconducting wires, for example, more current could be carried without being destroyed by a magnetic field. The filaments in the lightbulbs we'd started manufacturing kept burning up. It glimmers at barely 1800 degrees Fahrenheit, which is cooler than a light bulb filament. As he watched it burn he noticed how individual strands of the wood glowed white as they burned fiercely, and that convinced him that bamboo might be the best material to use for his light bulb filaments. Lewis Latimer, the son of runaway slaves, became an electrical engineer and invented an inexpensive process for making light bulb filaments. It is like comparing a red-hot poker pulled from a fire with the filament in an electric light bulb: there is no doubt concerning which is the brighter. The tungsten filament of an incandescent light is an example of a wire under extreme conditions. The inert gas prevents the wire filament inside the bulb from reacting chemically with oxygen and burning out quickly. An incandescent black light bulb is similar to a normal household light bulb, but it uses light filters to absorb the light from the heated filament. An incandescent light bulb contains a thin wire filament (usually tungsten) that glows hot when an electric current is run through it. It was as white and alive as the filament of a light bulb viewed close up. Unlike an incandescent bulb, no filament is needed. In an incandescent bulb, the filament is made of a thin piece of tungsten metal, coiled to fit inside the bulb; if it were stretched out, it would measure about 6 feet long! Synonyms cord, rope, string, cable, wire, thread, twine, strand, ligature Derivatives filamentary adjective fɪləˈmɛnt(ə)riˌfɪləˈmɛn(t)əri Note that, even at this early era, galaxies are clustered into filamentary structures, separated by empty voids. Example sentencesExamples When viewed in a small telescope, it appears as a large elliptical haze with no trace of the many beautiful filamentary arms with a multitude of branches revealed in this striking VLT image. The tiny charged particles link up into chains, which go on to form filamentary networks. The tip may be elongate and flexible so that it packs the cavity by being folded upon itself a multiple number of times, or may pack the cavity by virtue of a filamentary or fuzzy structure of the tip. It is, of course, also very easy to oversimplify these connections, leaving only a filamentary network of cliches. filamented adjective Perhaps the most primitive structure unit was cablelike and reflected the filamented keratin macromolecule. Example sentencesExamples The semi-crystalline filamented structure provides internal support, superimposed on the structural interactions of branched structures that produce the vane of body contour and flight feathers. He worries that ‘a finely filamented electronic mesh has slipped between ourselves and the outside world’. Single- and double-barrelled microelectrodes were prepared using filamented glass as described previously. Single-barrelled micropipettes were made from filamented borosilicate glass tubing. filamentous adjective fɪləˈmɛntəs Also, a mat of threadlike filamentous algae floating on the surface greatly increases the rate of water loss through evaporation. Example sentencesExamples In this research area (as in others), yeasts and filamentous fungi have played key roles as model systems. I saw the honeyeaters so well that I could see the filamentous white plumes on their black throats. This filamentous fungus is well suited for such analysis. All told, filamentous growth represents a complex biological output that is influenced to a greater or lesser degree by many parameters. Origin Late 16th century: from French, or from modern Latin filamentum, from late Latin filare 'to spin', from Latin filum 'thread'. Definition of filament in US English: filament nounˈfiləməntˈfɪləmənt 1A slender threadlike object or fiber, especially one found in animal or plant structures. （尤指动植物构造中的）丝 each myosin filament is usually surrounded by 12 actin filaments 每根肌球蛋白丝通常都围有12根肌动蛋白丝。 Example sentencesExamples He had division of the terminal filament for a tethered spinal cord, which was thought to be the cause of his symptoms. They use it to convert energy into movement, exerted against polar actin filaments. Her only connection to the world a tenuous filament of wires, tubes and intravenous needles. Tinted prints of Andy Warhol's inflated ‘silver clouds’ dangled on filaments in the first and second galleries. They are twisted masses of tiny filaments or fibers inside nerve cells. On a transparent blue expanse, a swaddled figure lies in a passive curve, suspended in a heavenly hammock of spidery filaments, surrendered to the life of the mind. For example, all three contract when a rise in calcium inside the muscle cell allows interaction between actin and myosin filaments. We determined the dissociation constants of our mutants for skeletal muscle actin using capped filaments. Place it indoors, in a quiet room, and the smoke becomes a cloud of wispy filaments, swirling gently until they all blend into a screen of gray. Her fur was standing on end, like filaments of wire. Synonyms fibre, thread, strand, tendril 1.1Botany The slender part of a stamen that supports the anther. 〔植〕（支承花药的雄蕊的）花丝 Example sentencesExamples In these flowers, the anthers are attached to the petals by short filaments half way down the corolla tube. Smearing of pollen is facilitated by the fanning out of anthers borne at the ends of the filaments. At the balloon stage of flowering, petals were peeled away and the swollen anthers were removed from the filaments by rubbing the open flower on wire mesh. Short and long stamens were measured from the base of the filament to the tip of the anthers. The style is enclosed in a tube formed by the five fused anthers and filaments. 1.2Astronomy A slender, elongated body of luminous gas or other material in the sun’s atmosphere, a nebula, or interstellar space. Example sentencesExamples Picking a fax out of the machine, he reviewed the hand sketches of sunspots, coronal holes, filaments, and prominences of the Sun as drawn by observers at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. 2A conducting wire or thread with a high melting point, forming part of an electric bulb or vacuum tube and heated or made incandescent by an electric current. （电灯泡的）灯丝；（热离子管的）丝极 Example sentencesExamples The tungsten filament of an incandescent light is an example of a wire under extreme conditions. It was as white and alive as the filament of a light bulb viewed close up. The inert gas prevents the wire filament inside the bulb from reacting chemically with oxygen and burning out quickly. Lewis Latimer, the son of runaway slaves, became an electrical engineer and invented an inexpensive process for making light bulb filaments. An incandescent light bulb contains a thin wire filament (usually tungsten) that glows hot when an electric current is run through it. The filaments in the lightbulbs we'd started manufacturing kept burning up. Unlike an incandescent bulb, no filament is needed. A strong, alternating current heats a resistive filament, causing it to emit electrons. It is like comparing a red-hot poker pulled from a fire with the filament in an electric light bulb: there is no doubt concerning which is the brighter. An incandescent black light bulb is similar to a normal household light bulb, but it uses light filters to absorb the light from the heated filament. Regular incandescent light bulbs produce light by heating a small filament inside the bulb. As he watched it burn he noticed how individual strands of the wood glowed white as they burned fiercely, and that convinced him that bamboo might be the best material to use for his light bulb filaments. In an incandescent bulb, the filament is made of a thin piece of tungsten metal, coiled to fit inside the bulb; if it were stretched out, it would measure about 6 feet long! In one experiment, the researchers formed the yarn into a lightbulb filament and found that its strength and conductivity increased after it heated up. The most important factors determining the heating of a filament to incandescence are thermal mass and electrical resistance of the filament. By incorporating nanowires as filaments in bigger superconducting wires, for example, more current could be carried without being destroyed by a magnetic field. The new lamp not only has the size and shape of a conventional filament bulb but also comes with a standard screw base and can therefore be fitted in any lamp or light socket. It glimmers at barely 1800 degrees Fahrenheit, which is cooler than a light bulb filament. He used a carbon filament in an oxygen-free bulb. But unlike ordinary incandescent bulbs, they don't have a filament that will burn out, and they don't get especially hot. Synonyms cord, rope, string, cable, wire, thread, twine, strand, ligature Origin Late 16th century: from French, or from modern Latin filamentum, from late Latin filare ‘to spin’, from Latin filum ‘thread’.
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