Filament is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FILAMENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a slender threadlike body, fibre
• a slender thread-like object or fibre, especially one found in animal or plant structures
• the slender part of a stamen that supports the anther.
• a conducting wire or thread with a high melting point, forming part of an electric bulb or thermionic valve and heated or made incandescent by an electric current.
• fine wire in a light bulb that gives out light
• A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.
• a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
• the stalk of a stamen
• a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)
• a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current
• a narrow streamer from the sun's chromosphere or in its corona.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a very thin thread or threadlike structure

Words related to FILAMENT

filamentary19 filamentous16 filaments14 nema6

Words that contain FILAMENT

filaments14 filamentary19 filamentous16 myofilament21 monofilament19 myofilaments22 microfilament22 monofilaments20 multifilament20 microfilaments23 multifilaments21 nonfilamentous19

How to use FILAMENT in a sentence

• Make a dot upon the card opposite the tip of the filament, taking care not to disturb the position of either.
• In a few minutes observe that the filament is no longer opposite the dot.
• Here the contents of a cell contract and rearrange themselves only after contact of the cell with one of another filament of the plant.
• Not a filament, not a ribbon, however thin they might be, but kept as straight as a rod of iron.
• It is regarded as sure that its manufacture takes place in the breast or crop, whence issues a long filament.
• It is known that that filament is produced with difficulty.
• When an electric current is sent through the delicate filament, it meets a strong resistance.
• The heat developed in overcoming the resistance is so great that it makes the filament a glowing mass.
• The filament from its silk receiver issues from two small spinnarets situated near its jaws.
• While spinning, the worm moves its head continually from right to left, laying on the filament in a succession of lines somewhat resembling the shape of the figure eight.
• The filament issuing from the spinnarets is immediately attached to that already in place by means of the gum which has been mentioned.
• This hook, in revolving, catches the filament brought up by the finger and serves it on to the thread.
• Not a filament, not a ribbon, however thin, but kept as straight as a rod of iron.
• As to Ward I did but touch a filament or two in one of his monstrous cobwebs, and off he ran instantly to Newman to complain of my gratuitous impertinence.
• Shake the globe until all the filament is broken away, leaving only the ends of the platinum wire exposed.
• A metallic filament prepared by a secret chemical process and suspended in the bulb in an S-shape is used instead of the old straight span.
• For instance, transmit a strong current of electricity over a fine wire, or filament of carbon, and lo! the current is transformed into light.
• If current in a lamp is too little, its filament either will not glow at all or merely at a dull red, insufficient for a proper signal.
• If the current is too great, the filament is heated beyond its strength and parts at the weakest place.
• The current which just gives a sufficient lighting of the signal may be about doubled with safety to the filament of the lamp.
• A single filament over fifteen inches long was picked up on a Hilo veranda, having sailed in the air a distance of fifty miles.
• Her hair was a ruddy golden, each filament of the neatly gathered mass shining with its own lustre and delicate graduation of colour.
• Which is precisely and literally what Rodney, with every aching filament of nerve tissue in his body, most passionately wanted to do.

Similar words containing FILAM without suffix ent

filaments14 filamentary19 filamentous16 myofilament21 monofilament19 myofilaments22 microfilament22 monofilaments20 multifilament20 microfilaments23 multifilaments21 nonfilamentous19

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