filament
Meanings
noun
- A fine thread or wire.
- Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
- 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.
- The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.
- A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.
- A spool of plastic used as a material for 3D-printed objects.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(s-)lo-der. Proto-Italic *fī(s)lom Latin fīlum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Late Latin fīlō Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-məntom Latin -mentum Medieval Latin fīlāmentumbor. English filament Borrowed from Medieval Latin fīlāmentum, from Late Latin fīlō (“to spin, draw out in a long line”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”).
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