filament

Example Sentences

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These galaxies clump together in dense clusters joined by wispy filaments and separated by enormous voids hundreds of millions of light-years across.

From Scientific American

In the case of this pterosaur, the scientists discovered that there were different shapes of melanosomes in the pterosaur's skin as well as feathery and pillowy filament bodies within its skull.

From Salon

The main evidence she and her co-authors cite is that the fossil from Brazil has both simple filaments and feathery structures that are branched along their length, a feature only seen in dinosaur feathers.

From Scientific American

After being ingested, this pathogen fires a harpoonlike filament and injects its cellular machinery into a host cell to produce more spores.

From Science Magazine

And a scene near the end, when Westinghouse asks Edison about his feelings creating the filament that changed the world, his response is quietly powerful.

From Salon