filament

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English

a filament of solar material
a glowing light bulb filament

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin fīlāmentum, from Late Latin fīlō (“to spin, draw out in a long line”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɪləmənt/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun

filament (plural filaments)

  1. A fine thread or wire.
  2. 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.
  3. (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
  4. (botany) The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.
  5. (textiles) A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.

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Danish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin fīlāmentum.

Noun

filament n (singular definite filamentet, plural indefinite filamenter)

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Declension

Declension of filament
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative filament filamentet filamenter filamenterne
genitive filaments filamentets filamenters filamenternes

References

French

Pronunciation

Noun

filament m (plural filaments)

  1. filament

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology

From Medieval Latin fīlāmentum.

Noun

filament n (definite singular filamentet, indefinite plural filament or filamenter, definite plural filamenta or filamentene)

  1. a filament

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology

From Medieval Latin fīlāmentum.

Noun

filament n (definite singular filamentet, indefinite plural filament, definite plural filamenta)

  1. a filament

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French filament, from Latin filamentum.

Noun

filament n (plural filamente)

  1. filament

Declension

Declension of filament
singular plural
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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