Usually means: Thin threads or fibers, elongated.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. filaments: Merriam-Webster
  2. filaments: Collins English Dictionary
  3. filaments: Vocabulary.com
  4. Filaments, filaments: Wordnik
  5. filaments: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. filaments: Wiktionary
  7. filaments: Dictionary.com
  8. filaments: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Filaments: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Filaments: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. filaments: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Filaments: Medical dictionary

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  1. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (filament)

noun:  A fine thread or wire.
noun:  Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (botany) The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.
noun:  (textiles) A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.
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