Filament
Filament
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The word filament, which is descended from Latin filum meaning "thread", is used in English for a variety of thread-like structures, including:
Astronomy[edit]
- Galaxy filament, the largest known cosmic structures in the universe
- Solar filament, a solar prominence seen against the disc of the sun
Biology[edit]
- Myofilament, filaments of myofibrils constructed from proteins
- Protein filament, a long chain of protein subunits, such as those found in hair or muscle
- Part of a stamen, the male part of a flower
- Hypha, a thread-like cell in fungi and Actinobacteria
- Filamentation, an elongation of individual bacterial cells
Commerce[edit]
- Fiber or, more loosely, yarn
- Filament (textiles)
Media[edit]
- Filament (magazine), a female-oriented erotica magazine
- 2002 movie by Jinsei Tsuji
- Filament (band), a musical group from Japan
- Filament Games, a Wisconsin-based educational video game developer
- Filament Productions, a production design and touring video company
Physics and engineering[edit]
- Electrical filament, in an incandescent light bulb
- Heater filament, a thin heating element in a vacuum tube
- Current filament, a current restricted to a small part of the conducting medium
- Filament propagation, diffractionless propagation of a light beam
- 3D printing filament, used as raw material in 3D printing
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