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The word filament, which is descended from Latin filum meaning "thread", is used in English for a variety of thread-like structures, including:
In commerce
- Fiber or, more loosely, yarn
- Filament (textiles)
In physics and electrical engineering
- An electrical filament in an incandescent light bulb
- Similarly, a thin heating element
- Current filament
- Filament propagation, diffractionless propagation of a light beam
- 3D printing filament, used as raw material for Fused deposition modeling 3D printers
In astronomy
- Galaxy filament, the largest known cosmic structures in the universe, thread-like structures that form the boundaries between large voids in the universe
- Solar filament, equivalent to a solar prominence
- Birkeland current, a specific magnetic field-aligned current in the Earth’s magnetosphere
In biology
- Myofilament, filaments of myofibrils constructed from proteins
- Protein filament, a long chain of protein subunits, such as those found in hair, muscle, or in flagella
- Part of a stamen, the male part of a flower
- Hypha, a thread-like cell in fungi and Actinobacteria
- Filamentation, an elongation of individual bacterial cells
- Fine root hair on plants, natural fibers on plants, and other hair-like growths on plants
In media
- Filament (magazine), a female-oriented erotica magazine
- 2002 movie by Jinsei Tsuji
- Filament (band), a musical group from Japan that consists of Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko M
- Filament Games, a Madison, Wisconsin-based educational video game developer
- Filament Productions, a Production Design & Touring Video company based in Charlottesville, Virginia
See also
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