What does «filamento» mean in Spanish?
- A thin, elongated element of an animal or vegetable organ.
- Very thin yarn.
- Elect. In a light bulb or lamp, a conductive metal wire that becomes incandescent when current is passed through it. Composed of tungsten or other high resistance material.
- The sterile basal part of a flower stamen that supports the anther. Term coined by Linnaeus.
- In physical cosmology, long, thin structures of galaxies.
- Myofilament. Fibers that form the myofibril.
- Intermediate filaments. Components of the cytoskeleton of cells, formed by groupings of fibrous proteins.
- The thallus or part of the thallus of a linearly developing alga, usually consisting of a single row of cells (trichome); in cyanophyceae, the trichome together with the sheath is called the filament.