Synonyms for Filaments:
n.
•components (noun)fragments, ingredients, media, components, articles, segments, fractions, materials, members, items, constituents, features, factors, pieces, percentages, portions, sections, parts, matters, elements.
Usage examples for filaments
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These multiply and lengthen into filaments at the expense of the fly's substance; and when they have at last killed the patient, they grow out of its body and give off spores. – Aphorisms and Reflections from the works of T. H. Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley
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The spores of the fungus are produced in great numbers on diseased areas during the growing season and are borne on thread- like filaments which live throughout the winter in the tissues of the vine and are ready for new growth in the spring. – Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
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But to come crashing down into the exquisite filaments of a human brain with it, to use it to keep a brain from continuing to be a brain- that is, an organ with all its reading senses acting and reacting warm and living in it, is a very serious matter. – The Lost Art of Reading by Gerald Stanley Lee