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a thin, flexible structure that resembles a hair
  • the cable was made up of fine filaments twisted together

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The first known use of filament was in 1594

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“Filament.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/filament. Accessed 12 December 2019.

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