A slender threadlike object or fiber, esp. one found in animal or plant structures
A conducting wire or thread with a high melting point, forming part of an electric bulb or vacuum tube and heated or made incandescent by an electric current
The slender part of a stamen that supports the anther
A narrow streamer from the sun's chromosphere or in its corona
FILAMENT, a very thin thread or threadlike structure [n]
A narrow streamer of gas in an interstellar cloud or nebula