filament

[ˈfɪləmənt]

Definition:
1. A long thin piece of something that looks like a thread.
2. A thin wire in a light bulb that produces light when electricity is passed through it.

Use 'filament' in a sentence:

1. When a silver filament reaches the gold, it forms a short circuit, causing a dramatic change in conductance, which is easily detectable.
2. Filament fibers may be used in making some types of bonded fiber fabrics.
3. The vampire squid has 8 long arms, and a long curly strand that serves as a sensory filament.
4. And Edison's bulb is, at its core, a burning filament that casts the glow of a flame.
5. The light of an electric lamp comes from an incandescent filament.
6. Apart from the tiny current trickling through its filament, the secret of the Centennial Light's long life is that it has rarely been turned off.
7. Look how thin that filament is there.
8. In filament wound pressure vessels, the strength of fibers can not be sufficiently utilized.
9. Every filament or ribbon, no matter how thin, stood ramrod straight.
10. The cytoskeleton is composed of microfilament, microtubule and intermediate filament, which have important biological functions.
11. Thus, the 3 D parametric design of filament winding equipment around a research direction.
12. The thread in the corolla is the short filament of a degenerated stamen.
13. He claimed to have gone through 6000 materials from the plant world alone in his search for the perfect filament.
14. The structure and properties of flat section and circular polyester filament were studied coefficient ect.
15. The characteristics of the multidirectional filament wound production is analyzed in the beginning.
16. In fact, the argon would be so thick that if a light bulb inside the room were to break, the filament would keep glowing.
17. Gravity would then tug at the neck, causing it to stretch out until the object becomes a set of spherical black holes connected by a filament of black string.
18. If the filament transformer has a center tap, don't use it.
19. The resistance of the metal-filament lamp increases, and that of the carbon-filament lamp decreases with increase of current.
20. The carbon nanotubes were synthesized by the heat filament chemical vapor deposition.
21. They could refuse to light up for no apparent reason, because of some infinitesimal rupture in the filament.
22. Continuous filament usually need adhesive to protect the filaments from breaking.
23. Edison's lab put a lot of effort into making a bulb with a platinum filament, but that work went nowhere, because platinum has a relatively low resistance.
24. Edison thinks he has a better idea, if he can get a filament to burn slowly in a vacuum.
25. The highest temperature-and thus the brightest light-that an incandescent lamp can achieve is the melting point of its tungsten filament.
26. Fibers are sold by the fiber producer as filament , staple or filament tow.
27. And as their name implies they exist as filaments.
28. The filament hairs, or cilia, bend with vibrations caused by sound waves entering the ear.
29. Pollution for noise, dust, vapour, waste liquid in manufacture of fiber filament were investigated and measured.
30. Muscles contract by a sliding-filament mechanism.
31. Feit Electric Vintage Style Carbon Filament Bulb.
32. The amount of energy pushed through a filament that actually emerges as visible light is around 2 percent — most of the rest is lost as heat.
33. Soon, the lab got a carbon-filament bulb to last 40 hours.
34. Thus a filament yarn is characterized by its denier and the number of fibers in the yarn.
35. Edison said: "I am not found more than 1000 kinds of inappropriate material filament so it?"
36. It'should be possible to estimate the temperature of the filament from the light spectrum.
37. The light fabric usually manufactured from fine number yarns and filament with little denier.
38. Tropomyosin adds structural rigidity to the thin filament.
39. M gowns inserts fur, waist belt of the filament.
40. Edison's bulb is, at its core, a burning filament that casts the glow of a flame.
41. Includes household filament light bulbs& luminaries.
42. The filament of castor oil plant synthesizes many bundles repeatedly, call much style stamen.
43. King inventors-Edison filament do in order to find the best materials have been done a 1000 experiment many times and failed.
44. Thin kelp is cut grow about 1 centimeter filament.
45. Along the battle front, the polyps of both combatants extrude their guts, long thread-like filaments.
46. Usually the number of holes in the spinneret determines the number of filament in the yarn.
47. The article studies the theory of continued fractions and describes filament winding patterns.
48. The gills constitutes of gill arch, gill raker, gill filament branch leaf.
49. The filament has burnt out.
50. The bottom image shows the filament in a charged state.
51. It's a filament made from tin oxide anode and lithium cobalt oxide cathode suspended in an ionic liquid electrolyte.
52. Since they do not have electrodes there are no filaments to burn out-so they may last a long time.
53. Composite plate and shell with rubber liner can simulate filament wound pressure vessels of the aircraft.
54. But accident of the filament in also having same flower is differ.
55. Instead, sarcomere shortening occurs when the thin filaments'slide" by the thick filaments.
56. The Sloan Great Wall, a vast galactic filament, is the largest known structure in the Universe.
57. King inventors - Edison filament do in order to find the best materials have been done a 1000 experiment many times and failed.
58. An incandescent bulb, made of a wire filament encased in glass, emits only 5% of the energy it consumes as light; the rest is wasted as heat.
59. Think about a light bulb; if you apply a current, the filament gets hot and begins to give off light of different colors - red then yellow then blue.
60. The financial system is held together with a very thin filament called confidence.
61. Using Frequency preheating can greatly reduce the impact on filament, and improve the lifespan.
62. The measures that can control the generation of brokea filament wore put forward.
63. The filaments may be analogous to solar flares or could be magnetic structures of some sort.
64. The ear has a set of filaments to vibrate in resonance with incoming sound-waves.