Sentence examples for filament from inspiring English sources
The word "filament" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used as both a noun (a thin thread of material, such as string or hair) and a verb (to produce, form, or shape something into long, thin strands). For example: The spider carefully spun its web, using delicate filaments of silk.
We taught a group of eight young men to continue doing the work and we left a big box of filament and supplies and two 3D printers.
According to a report published on January 16th by the Carter Centre, an American charity, only 148 people now harbour Guinea worm, which causes it.Guinea worms are nematodes that grow under the skins of their human hosts, to a length (if female) of half a metre or more, before emerging over the course of several days in a filament from which pieces break off and shed larvae.
In hot-smoking, the muscle's filament proteins uncoil and coagulate; in cold-smoking they remain coiled but microbe-free.
This was also a triode: a glass tube containing a heated metal filament which emits electrons, a plate that collects them once they have accelerated through the tube, and a metal grid in between.
These could be used to enhance security screening at airports, to allow engineers to check the structure of materials more easily and, especially, to enhance medical images in a way that would improve cancer therapy.At the moment, X-rays are produced by heating a negatively charged metal filament to a temperature of around 1,000ºC inside a vacuum tube.
Mr Rogge estimates that if he and his colleagues had printed their boat from commercial plastic filament it would have cost them $800.
This involves melting plastic in an extrusion head to deposit a thin filament of material to build the layers.Special report A third industrial revolution Back to making stuff The boomerang effect Forging ahead Solid print Layer by layer All together now Making the future Sources & acknowledgmentsReprintsOther systems use powders as the print medium.
Since the filaments that connect distant nerve cells are surrounded by fatty sheaths which restrict the movement of water, such molecules tend to move along a filament rather than out of it.
To be brighter than gas lamps, the carbon-filament bulbs he had developed had to be driven at the maximum voltage they could stand.
None has quite the full complement of colours of the profligate tungsten-filament bulb, with its wide palette of wavelengths in the visible spectrum.
But fossils from China suggest the precursors of feathers simple, filament-like structures possibly used for insulation evolved in land-lubbing dinosaurs and were only later adapted for flight.
