filar
- adjective
- /ˈfaɪlər/
- Specialized
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filar
- In the laboratory, the filar lines in the microscope's eyepiece allowed her to focus more easily on the slide.
Examples
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The telescope had a filar crosshair that helped the astronomer accurately locate celestial objects.
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The filar pattern on the fabric made it ideal for use in a science project about light and optics.
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Clay and I gave the coverlet a rather filar workout, and it was still intact in all its silky shabbiness in the morning.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
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8.2
Thin and long like a thread or hair
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7.9
Thin and like a thread
Made of thin threads like hair
Thin and long like a thread
A very thin shape like a thread
Shaped like a thin thread in parts of living things
A surface that has many thin hairs or threads
Having many tiny threads in body tissue
Having thin fibers in body tissue
How Threadlike
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word filar comes from the old Latin word filum meaning 'thread', and is related to the word filament. So filar describes something with thin, thread-like lines, like the fine threads in an eyepiece or micrometer used for careful measurement.