# filament
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin fīlāmentum, from Late Latin fīlō (“to spin, draw out in a long line”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɪləmənt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

filament (plural filaments)
* A fine thread or wire.
* Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
** 1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 398:Lighting was unimaginative for the standard stock with naked tungsten filament bulbs and metal reflectors. However, all compartments had individual reading lights above the seats with attractive glass shades.
* (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
* (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.

#### Derived terms

* biofilament
* cofilament
* filamental
* filamentary
* filamentation
* filamented
* filamenteous
* filamentiferous
* filamenting
* filamentless
* filamentlike
* filamentoid
* filamentous
* filament tape
* filamin
* galaxy filament
* granulofilament
* heterofilament
* homofilament
* interfilament
* intermediate filament
* macrofilament
* melanofilament
* microfilament
* minifilament
* monofilament
* multifilament
* myofilament
* nanofilament
* neurofilament
* nonfilament
* nucleofilament
* polyfilament
* protofilament
* pseudofilament
* sliding filament model
* solar filament
* superfilament
* tonofilament
* vortex filament

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* left main

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfɪlamɛnt]
* Hyphenation: fi‧la‧ment

### Noun

filament m inan
* filament

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “filament”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin fīlāmentum.

### Noun

filament n (singular definite filamentet, plural indefinite filamenter)
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#### Declension
### References

* “filament” in Den Danske Ordbog

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

filament m (plural filaments)
* filament

### Further reading

* “filament”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Medieval Latin fīlāmentum.

### Noun

filament n (definite singular filamentet, indefinite plural filament or filamenter, definite plural filamenta or filamentene)
* a filament

### References

* “filament” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Medieval Latin fīlāmentum.

### Noun

filament n (definite singular filamentet, indefinite plural filament, definite plural filamenta)
* a filament

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French filament, from Latin filamentum.

### Noun

filament n (plural filamente)
* filament