Definitions for filament

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filament fil·a·ment

Spelling: [fil-uh-muh nt]

IPA: /ˈfɪl ə mənt/

Filament is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 389 anagrams from letters in filament (aefilmnt).

Definitions for filament

noun

1. a very fine thread or threadlike structure; a fiber or fibril:
2. a single fibril of natural or synthetic textile fiber, of indefinite length, sometimes several miles long.
3. a long slender cell or series of attached cells, as in some algae and fungi.
4. Botany. the stalklike portion of a stamen, supporting the anther.
5. Ornithology. the barb of a down feather.
6. (in a light bulb or other incandescent lamp) the threadlike conductor, often of tungsten, in the bulb that is heated to incandescence by the passage of current.
7. Electronics. the heating element (sometimes also acting as a cathode) of a vacuum tube, resembling the filament in an incandescent bulb.
8. Astronomy. a solar prominence, as viewed within the sun's limb.

Origin of filament

1585-95; New Latin fīlāmentum, equivalent to Late Latin fīlā(re) to wind thread, spin (see file¹) + Latin -mentum -ment

Examples for filament

The B voltage gives the plate a positive charge to attract electrons from the filament.

The filament current of an audion-bulb averages about one ampere.

When the filament breaks, an electric lamp will no longer glow.

Many tubes also have small structures, known as grids, between the filament and the plate.

They consist usually of two parts, the filament and Anther, not yet described.

She had no remains of tenderness left for him: not a filament.

When you connect the A battery, the filament of the tube is heated to release negatively charged electrons.

Electrons travel through the partial vacuum inside the tube, flowing from the filament to the positively charged plate.

Close to the filament is a graphite disk which serves as one of the electrodes.

There is no oxygen to combine with the filament; so the lamp does not burn out.