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- Dictionaryfilament/ˈfɪləm(ə)nt/
noun
- 1. a slender threadlike object or fibre, especially one found in animal or plant structures: "each myosin filament is usually surrounded by 12 actin filaments"
- 2. 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.
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a. : a tenuous (see tenuous sense 2) conductor (as of carbon or metal) made incandescent by the passage of an electric current. specifically : a cathode (see cathode sense 2) in the form of a metal wire in an electron tube. b (1) : a thin and fine elongated constituent part of a gill (see gill entry 2 sense 1) (2)
FILAMENT definition: 1. a thin thread or fibre of natural or artificial material: 2. a thin wire, especially one that…. Learn more.
A filament is the thin wire inside a light bulb that emits light when heated by an electric current. The incandescent light bulb makes light by heating a metal filament wire to a high temperature until it glows.
FILAMENT meaning: 1. a thin thread or fibre of natural or artificial material: 2. a thin wire, especially one that…. Learn more.
In an incandescent light bulb, a fine wire called a filament is heated to high temperatures in a bulb that lacks oxygen to prevent the filament from catching fire as it is heated. The filament begins to glow and gives off light.
Filament definition: a very fine thread or threadlike structure; a fiber or fibril. See examples of FILAMENT used in a sentence.
Definition of filament noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
(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. Solar filament. Galaxy filament. The Ursa Major Filament. Wiktionary. More Noun Definitions (1) Synonyms: fibril.
1. (Electrical Engineering) the thin wire, usually tungsten, inside a light bulb that emits light when heated to incandescence by an electric current. 2. (Electrical Engineering) electronics a high-resistance wire or ribbon, forming the cathode in some valves. 3. (Textiles) a single strand of a natural or synthetic fibre; fibril. 4. (Botany) botany
filament meaning, definition, what is filament: a very thin thread or wire: Learn more.
