English Dictionary

filament

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfɪləmənt/

名詞

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

日本語の意味

細くて極細の糸または金属線。白熱電球や真空管などで、熱せられて光を放つために用いられる薄いワイヤー。

The microscope revealed a single filament tangled among the pollen grains.

顕微鏡で花粉の粒の間に絡まった一本の細い糸が見えた。

意味（1）

A fine thread or wire.

意味（2）

Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.

Lighting was unimaginative for the standard stock with naked tungsten filament bulbs and metal reflectors. However, all compartments had individual reading lights above the seats with attractive glass shades.

意味（3）

(physics, astronomy) 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.

solar filament

意味（4）

(botany) The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.

意味（5）

(textiles) A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.

filaments （ plural ）