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Filaments
The word filament, which is descended from Latin filum meaning "thread", is used in English for a variety of thread-like structures, including:
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filaments
Plural form of the word filament.
The cable for the broadband was made up of various width of filaments of coper wiring.
Submitted by MaryC on March 12, 2017
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Filaments in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Filaments in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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When I saw the richness of the turbulence around the Jovian cyclones, with all the filaments and smaller eddies, it reminded me of the turbulence you see in the ocean around eddies, these are especially evident in high-resolution satellite images of vortices in Earth's oceans that are revealed by plankton blooms that act as tracers of the flow.
These organisms seem to have been able to quickly colonise the sea floor, and we often see one dominant species on these fossil beds, how this happens ecologically has been a longstanding question -- these filaments may explain how they were able to do that.
Our new knowledge of these structures could make it possible to diagnose CTE in living patients by developing tracer compounds that will specifically bind to the tau filaments of CTE.
If the friendship of the good be interrupted, their minds admit of no long change; as when the stalks of a lotus are broken the filaments within them are more visibly cemented.
We don't know the chemical nature of these molecules yet, but we suspect they may play a role in the assembly of tau into filaments, and that their abundance may determine why some individuals develop CTE and others do not.
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