Filament

Filament ( late Latin filamentum , 'thread work') stands for:

• generally a single fiber of any length
• Filament (textile fiber) , the international name for fibers of practically unlimited length
• Filament ( 3D printing ), thermoplastic materials ( ABS and PLA ), which made up in wire form on rollers in FDM / FFF-methods are used
• glass fiber
• a filament to emit electrons, see hot cathode
• LED filament in LED lamps that mimics the filament of an incandescent lamp

Astronomy:

• Filament (cosmology) , large-scale thread-like structure in the universe
• Filament (nebula) , substructure of cosmic nebulae
• Filament (sun) , violent streams of matter on the sun (protuberances), which appear as dark, thread-like structures in front of the solar disk

Biology:

• thin, thread-like cell structures, see cytoskeleton ; in detail:
  • Microfilaments (actin filaments)
  • Microtubules
  • Intermediate filaments
  • Hypha , thread-like cells of fungi and streptomycetes

See also : Filament slip theory

- botany:

• Stamen of the plant

- Zoology:

• thread-like continuation of the tail in larvae or Adulti some salamanders
• thread-like extension of the dorsal, caudal and / or anal fin in bony fish

- virology

• Protein fibrils on the capsid of virus particles , the envelope making out

See also:

• Fiber (disambiguation)
• thread

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.