Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - filament
Filament
filament
n. 1 a slender threadlike body or fibre (esp. in animal or vegetable structures). 2 a conducting wire or thread with a high melting-point in an electric bulb or thermionic valve, heated or made incandescent by an electric current. 3 Bot. the part of the stamen that supports the anther. 4 archaic (of air, light, etc.) a notional train of particles following each other. Derivatives filamentary adj. filamented adj. filamentous adj. Etymology: F filament or mod.L filamentum f. LL filare spin f. L filum thread FILARIA n. (pl. filariae) any threadlike parasitic nematode worm of the family Filariidae introduced into the blood by certain biting flies and mosquitoes. Derivatives filarial adj. Etymology: mod.L f. L filum thread
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noun see: file Date: 1594 a single thread or a thin flexible threadlike object, process, or appendage: as, a tenuous conductor (as of carbon or metal) made incandescent by the passage of an electric current, b. a thin and fine elongated constituent part of a gill, an elongated thin series of cells attached one to another or a very long thin cylindrical single cell (as of some algae, fungi, or bacteria), the anther-bearing stalk of a stamen, ~ary adjective ~ous adjective ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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