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• An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament.From the entry adnate
• One must thoriate the filament in order for it to be effective.From the entry thoriate
• Muscle consists largely of actin and myosin filaments.From the entry muscle
• The filaments of certain willows are semiconnate.From the entry semiconnate
• (uncountable, by extension) The collection or mass of such outgrowths, filaments, or fibers growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.From the entry hair
• The cyanobacteria grow filaments that are surrounded by a sticky gel-like sheath.[2021, Jaco J. Hamman, Just Traveling: God, Leaving Home, and a Spirituality for the Road, Fortress Press, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry desert glue
• I also checked the filament diameter in cura an of the Filament, but it's both 1.75.2018 December 17, ErenUenal, UltiMaker. From the entry overextrude
• Among the neoptile feathers occur isolated bristle-like filaments, whose origin and function are unclear.2017 June 28, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian. From the entry neoptile
• Hollow-fiber filaments have been produced for the textile industry for a long time.2012, Noam Lior, Advances in Water Desalination - Volume 1, →ISBN. From the entry hollow-fiber
• Both macandrous and nannandrous species produce stephanokont sperm in specially differentiated segments of the filament called antheridia.1984, Hayden N. Pritchard, Patricia T. Bradt, Biology of nonvascular plants, page 91. From the entry stephanokont
• The plastid is composed of 2 structures, a filament or plastonema, partially surrounding a lighter staining plastosome.1933, Jacob Richard Schramm, Biological Abstracts - Volume 7, page 256. From the entry plastonema
• Filaments up to 32 cells long were observed, capped with live heterovalvate end-cells where each possessed one of the initial valves.2015 October 21, “Auxosporulation in Paralia guyana MacGillivary (Bacillariophyta) and Possible New Insights into the Habit of the…. From the entry heterovalvate
• Time-lapse video microscopy showed arrest of fungal growth upon penetration of the rhodaminated peptide into a fungal filament.2015 December 15, “Antibacterial Peptide-Based Gel for Prevention of Medical Implanted-Device Infection”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry rhodaminated
• Thin filaments (70 nm) composed of spore wall material were observed projecting from an abopercular thickening of the spore wall.2014, Andrew D. Winters, Mohamed Faisal, “Molecular and ultrastructural characterization of Haplosporidium diporeiae n. sp., a parasite of…. From the entry abopercular
• The androsporangia are formed in a series by the repeated transverse division of any vegetative cell of a large filament.2010, N K Soni, Vandana Soni, Fundamentals of Botany, volume 1, Tata McGraw Hill Education Private Limited, →ISBN, page 67. From the entry androsporangium
• Branches and leaves become covered with the waxy filaments creating a flocculence (wool-like tufts) that indicates a heavy infestation.2003 August, “a psyllid – Boreioglycaspis melaleucae Moore”, in Featured Creatures, University of Florida Department of Entomology &…. From the entry flocculence
• It leads to the disruption of filaments into fragments.1994, Satish C. Bhatla, Moss protonema differentiation, page 48. From the entry tmema
• Singer divided the Micacei into Domestiei Sing., with filaments between spherocysts, and Exannulati Lange, where this is not the case.1978, Persoonia, volume 10, page 421. From the entry spherocyst
• The filaments are typically somewhat twisted or nostocoid and the trichomes are very narrow, barely three micra in diameter.1953, Natural and Applied Science Bulletin. From the entry nostocoid
• Cuvier & Valenciennes state that the first ray of the dorsal of P. nigricans is prolonged in a filament.1918–1921: Carl H. Eigenmann, Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, volume VII, № 5, “The Pygidiidæ, a Family of South American Catfishes”, page…. From the entry lapsus digiti
• Pulling the filament attached to the ejaculatory end of a spermatophore is all that is needed to start its ejaculation.1910 June 20, Gilman A. Drew, “Sexual Activities of the Squid, Loligo pealii (Les.). I. Copulation, Egg-laying and Fertilization”, in…. From the entry ejaculate
• Each phacellus consists of from eight to twelve brush-like filaments.1909, The Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University ..., page 6. From the entry phacellus
• She lays out how fungal hyphae—countless miles of filaments folded up in every spoon of soil—coax open tree roots and tap into them.2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 272. From the entry hypha
• This results in a transient actin network, that naturally accommodates intranetwork flows of the actomyosin dense regions as a consequence of filament unbinding and rebinding.2016, Deb Sankar Banerjee, Akankshi Munjal, Thomas Lecuit, Madan Rao, “Actomyosin pulsation and symmetry breaking flows in a confined…. From the entry intranetwork
• When a printer is extruding and has open spaces in a layer, printers pull the filament back so that stringing does not occur.2015, Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron, 3D Printing with MatterControl, page 153. From the entry extrude
• The cytoskeleton is a dynamic arrangement of actin filaments that maintain cell shape and are vital in mediating the mechanobiological response of the cell.2015 July 3, Michael Lavagnino, Keri L. Gardner, Steven P. Arnoczky, “High magnitude, in vitro, biaxial, cyclic tensile strain induces…. From the entry mechanobiological
• MCO reniform, quadriloculate, with comparatively long arcing cone; walls of chambers variably thick; distal tube short, with comparatively thick walls; retractile filament variable in length.2015 August 12, Delane C. Kritsky, Micah D. Bakenhaster, Douglas H. Adams, “Pseudorhabdosynochus species (Monogenoidea, Diplectanidae)…. From the entry quadriloculate
• The molten glass exudes into the space outside the outer crucible, and a filament is pulled from the exudant to form a cored glass fiber.2013, Vladimir G. Plekhanov, Applications of the Isotopic Effect in Solids, page 258. From the entry exude
• The other branch (antheridium) grows up in close contact with the archicarp, and like it is shut off by a partition from its filament.2010, Douglas H. Campbell, Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany, →ISBN, page 80. From the entry archicarp
• The muscles are attached either directly to internal protrusions of its external skeleton, called apodemes, or indirectly, by filaments attached to the connection points.2007 November 20, C. Claiborne Ray, “Ant Power”, in New York Times. From the entry apodeme
• More specifically, a shiro is the dense mat of fungal filaments ("hyphae" or collectively "mycelium") that matsutake species form in the soil.1997, David Hosford, David Pilz, Randy Molina, Michael Amaranthus, Ecology and Management of the Commercially Harvested American Matsutake…. From the entry shiro
• When skin is stained with Altmann’s acid fuchsin methyl green the spiral filaments of the epidermis are stained only moderately, but typical mitochondria stain clearly.1962, William Montagna, “The Epidermis”, in The Structure and Function of Skin, 2nd edition, New York: Academic P, page 40. From the entry fuchsine
• While there are many polymers available as filaments for fused filament fabrication (FFF) extrusion-style 3D printing, PLA, PETG, TPU and ABS are among the most common.2025, “Quick Reference: Common Materials for FFF”, in Additive Manufacturing. From the entry FFF
• The observations reveal that an ancient cluster of galaxies about 12bn light years away in the constellation of Aquarius are linked together by a network of faint gas filaments.2019 October 3, Hannah Devlin, “Scientists observe mysterious cosmic web directly for first time”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry cosmic web
• Researchers at the University of Warwick have created conductive polycaprolactone (PCL)-based filament by mixing carbon black into melted plastic before it's extruded as filament; they call the result carbomorph.2017, Richard Horne, 3D Printing For Dummies. From the entry extrude
• Later the thick filaments acquired a more compact, regular arrangement to form interrupted series of structural units (sarcomeres), on which precursorial M-lines and H-bands could then be noted.2013, Lawrence Dillon, The Inconstant Gene, page 194. From the entry precursorial
• The precisely organized staircase-like morphology of the hair bundle is maintained by a series of extracellular filaments between adjacent stereocilia: kinociliary links, ankle links, lateral links, and tip links.2011, Colleen G. Le Prell, Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: Scientific Advances, page 184. From the entry kinociliary
• In a basic spunbonding system, sheets of synthetic filaments are extruded from polymer onto a conveyor as a randomly oriented web in the closest approximation to a continuous polymer-to-fabric operation.2010, R Chapman, Applications of Nonwovens in Technical Textiles, page 8. From the entry spunbonding

Meaning of filament

1. noun A fine thread or wire.
2. noun Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
3. noun 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.

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How do you use filament in a sentence?

Filament is used as a noun. For example: “An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament.”

What is a short sentence with filament?

“the Ursa Major Filament”

What does filament mean?

Filament means a fine thread or wire.