Noun: filament
| Singular | filament |
| Plural | filaments |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 398:]
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solar filament
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galaxy filament
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the Ursa Major Filament
Nouns inflected like filament
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(s-)lo-der.
3. Proto-Italic *fī(s)lom
4. Latin fīlum
5. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
6. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
7. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
8. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
9. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
10. Proto-Italic *-ājō
11. Proto-Italic *-āō
12. Latin -ō
13. Late Latin fīlō
14. Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
15. Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
16. Proto-Italic *-mentom
17. Latin -mentum
18. Medieval Latin fīlāmentumbor.
19. English filament
20. Borrowed from Medieval Latin fīlāmentum, from Late Latin fīlō (“to spin, draw out in a long line”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”). See: Latin Nouns '
fīlum'.
Verbs referencing "filament"
Finnish Nouns
filamentti.