filament

IPA: fˈɪɫʌmʌnt

A fine thread or wire.
Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
(physics, astronomy) 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.
(botany) The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.
(textiles) A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.

Examples of "filament" in Sentences

I dangled between two worlds on a thin filament and felt it fray.
A medium - to lightweight spinning setup spooled with 6 - or 8-pound mono-filament is perfect.
The lamps were of the incandescent variety, and what we now know as the filament was platinum wire.
The teardrop elongates until a tail of ink, called a filament, stretches away like the tail of a comet.
Its 13-million-light-year-long stream of galaxies, gas and dark matter - known as a filament - is pouring into a region already full of galaxies.
In MACSJ0717, a 13-million-light-year-long stream of galaxies, gas and dark matter - known as a filament - is pouring into a region already full of galaxies.
They found evidence that a 13-million-light-year-long stream of galaxies, gas and dark matter -- known as a filament -- was causing repeated collisions in the cluster.
The mandibles each suddenly end in a curved, slender filament, which is probably used as a tactile organ to explore the best sites in the flesh of their victim for drawing blood.