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Word of the Day - filament
Light up your life, but choose a more carbon-stingy way to do it. Incandescent is no longer the glowing word it once was.
filament
/ˈfɪləm(ə)nt/ [fill-uh-ment]
noun
1 A slender threadlike object or fibre, especially one found in animal or plant structures.
1.1 Botany The slender part of a stamen that supports the anther.
1.2 Astronomy A slender, elongated body of luminous gas or other material
in the sun’s atmosphere, a nebula, or interstellar space.
2 A conducting wire or thread with a high melting point, forming part of an
electric bulb or thermionic valve and heated or made incandescent by an
electric current.
Origin
Late 16th century from French, or from modern Latin filamentum, from late Latin filare ‘to spin’, from Latin filum ‘thread’.
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Bulbs with light emitting diodes (LED) are being designed to mimic early "Edison style" incandescent filament lightbulbs.
