filament
Example Sentences
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These thread like growths, known as filaments, would keep extending until they created a short circuit and destroyed the pixel.
From Science Daily
Instead, they are built from complex networks of thin, thread-like protein filaments.
From Science Daily
“There are some white mountain avens,” he said, pointing at flowers with eight creamy white petals surrounding a center of bright yellow filaments.
From Literature
Baby Joe joined a boy picking out tiny fish caught in net filaments, while another boy set to repairing damaged nets.
From Literature
Grant’s work is delicate: He cleaves each strand of a fiber-optic cable for a clean edge, then uses a machine to fuse the hair-thin filaments, which carry digital data at the speed of light.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
