FILAMENT

noun see: file Date: 1594 a single thread or a thin flexible threadlike object, process, or appendage: as, a tenuous conductor (as of carbon or metal) made incandescent by the passage of an electric current, b. a thin and fine elongated constituent part of a gill, an elongated thin series of cells attached one to another or a very long thin cylindrical single cell (as of some algae, fungi, or bacteria), the anther-bearing stalk of a stamen, ~ary adjective ~ous adjective