filamentary

[ fil-uh-men-tuh-ree ]

adjective

1. pertaining to or of the nature of a filament.

Other Words From

• inter·fila·menta·ry adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of filamentary¹

First recorded in 1835–45; filament + -ary

Example Sentences

"What we've done is to place a small piece of silicon in the quartz discharge tube, allowing a different plasma to be generated, one that is not filamentary and is more efficient at creating active species when interacting with water," explained Professor María C. García.

From Science Daily

At center left and right, the white material curves sharply inward from the filamentary dust cage's edges and goes toward the neutron star's location, as if the waist of the nebula is pinched.

From Science Daily

To learn more about the wonders revealed through the new telescope, feast your eyes on the latest batch of images capturing the birth of new stars, the extraordinarily detailed pictures of the famous Pillars of Creation — or even glimpse the earliest strings of the cosmic web, the filamentary structure of 10 threaded galaxies, considered a blueprint for all creation.

From Salon

"This is one of the earliest filamentary structures that people have ever found associated with a distant quasar," said Feige Wang, an assistant research professor at the University of Arizona Steward Observatory and lead author of one of the two papers published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters detailing the discovery.

From Salon

That’s one of the plans that we have to test this idea of the stretching and elongation and alignment of these filamentary structures.

From Scientific American