noun. A fine or very thin thread or fiber.

noun. A slender or threadlike structure or part, especially.

noun. A fine wire that is heated electrically to produce light in an incandescent lamp.

noun. The stalk that bears the anther in the stamen of a flower.

noun. A chainlike series of cells, as in many algae.

noun. A long thin cellular structure characteristic of many fungi, usually having multiple nuclei and often divided by septa.

noun. Any of various long thin celestial objects or phenomena, such as a solar filament.

noun. In geometrical topics, a movable object which at any one instant, or indivisible determination of time, is at every part of a line. During a lapse of time a filament is restricted to being in some surface, which it is said to generate.

noun. A long threadlike bacterial growth.

noun. A fine untwisted thread; a separate fiber or fibril of any vegetable or animal tissue or product, natural or artificial, or of a fibrous mineral: as, a filament of silk, wool, cobweb, or asbestos; a cortical or muscular filament.

noun. Specifically In botany, the support of an anther, usually slender and stalk-like, but very variable in form.

noun. In ornithology, the part of a down-feather corresponding to the barb of an ordinary feather.

noun. A tenuous thread of any substance, as glass or mucus; hence, in medicine, a glairy substance sometimes contained in urine, capable of being drawn out into threads or strings.

noun. The nearly infusible conductor placed in the globe of an incandescent lamp or glow-lamp and raised to incandescence by the passage of the current. It is usually some form of carbon, although metals with high points of fusion have been used.

noun. A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber

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. 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. The stalk of a stamen in a flower, supporting the anther.

noun. A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.

noun. a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current

noun. a very slender natural or synthetic fiber

noun. a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)

noun. the stalk of a stamen

"I dangled between two worlds on a thin filament and felt it fray."

filament of needham  gastric filaments  linin filament  seminal filament  spermatic filament  

conducting wire  stalk  stem  wire  

bulb  coil  cord  electrode  fibers  

barbel  cirrus  cobweb  fiber  film