filamentary
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7.9
- adjective
- /ˌfɪləˈmɛnˌtɛri/
:
filamentoso
- The spider's web had a filamentary appearance, glistening softly in the morning light.
- filamentary structure
But what you see has a kind of filamentary structure.
- But what you see has a kind of filamentary structure.
Examples
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The artist's painting depicted a filamentary design that resembled delicate strands of silk.
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The filamentary transistors have malfunctioned!
Fiction book (1995) -
But what you see has a kind of filamentary structure.
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The complexity of the filamentary structure suggests that the magnetic field stores excess energy.
Academic text (1996) -
The origin of the remarkable filamentary structures and the threads in the central region is still far from being understood.
Academic text (1992) -
The hot gas, called plasma, ejected from the binary system produces filamentary features in the image.
Academic text (1990) -
The spot's central umbra is surrounded by the filamentary penumbra.
Academic text (1991) -
Circuits and test tubes flash and glow as sparks and filamentary arcs.
Fiction book (1991) -
This filamentary structure contrasted with a smooth, amorphous region, with no filaments, which emitted a blue spectrum without any emission lines.
Academic text (2002) -
The fingers reflect an ongoing struggle between the filamentary ejecta and the so-called "synchrotron nebula" powered by the pulsar.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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7.9
Being thin and like a small string
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4.2
Very thin and long like a single hair
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8.2
Thin and long like a thread or hair
A very thin shape like a thread
Thin and long like a thread
Shaped like a thin thread in parts of living things
Made of thin threads like hair
Thin threads in an eyepiece that help measure
Having many tiny threads in body tissue
Having thin fibers in body tissue
How Threadlike
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Filamentary comes from the word filament, which comes from an old Latin word filum meaning 'thread'. So, think of a very thin 'thread' — something described as filamentary looks thin and thread-like, like spider-web strands or hair-thin roots.