different between filament vs thysanuran

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin f?l?mentum, from Late Latin f?l? (“to spin, draw out in a long line”), from Latin f?lum (“thread”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?l?m?nt/

Noun

filament (plural filaments)

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

   galaxy filament

   the Ursa Major Filament

4. (botany) The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.
5. (textiles) A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.

Translations

Anagrams

• left main

Danish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin f?l?mentum.

Noun

filament n (singular definite filamentet, plural indefinite filamenter)

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Declension

References

• “filament” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Medieval Latin f?l?mentum.

Noun

filament n (definite singular filamentet, indefinite plural filament or filamenter, definite plural filamenta or filamentene)

1. a filament

References

• “filament” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Medieval Latin f?l?mentum.

Noun

filament n (definite singular filamentet, indefinite plural filament, definite plural filamenta)

1. a filament

Romanian

Etymology

From French filament, from Latin filamentum.

Noun

filament n (plural filamente)

1. filament

Declension

English

Etymology

Thysanura +? -an

Noun

thysanuran (plural thysanurans)

1. Any of various insects, including the silverfish and firebrats, of the order Thysanura (now Zygentoma), which have three long caudal filaments.
   • 2008, Timothy J. Bradley, Saline-water Insects: Ecology, Physiology and Evolution, Jill Lancaster, Robert A. Briers, Aquatic Insects: Challenges to Populations: Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society's 24th Symposium, page 22,

     Marine thysanurans are another abundant and highly successful group of apterygotes able to exploit the ocean shore.

Hypernyms

• bristletail

Related terms

• thysanurous

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