Usually means: Resembling a thread or fiber.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. filamentary: Merriam-Webster
  2. filamentary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. filamentary: Collins English Dictionary
  4. filamentary: Wordnik
  5. filamentary: Wiktionary
  6. filamentary: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. filamentary: Dictionary.com
  8. Filamentary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. filamentary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Filamentary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. filamentary: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Filamentary: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. Filamentary: Dictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. filamentary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. filamentary: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. filamentary: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (filamentary)

▸ adjective:  Of, pertaining to, containing or resembling a filament or filaments.

Similar:
filamented, filamental, microfilamentous, myofilamentary, myofilamentous, pseudofilamentous, fibrillar, fibrinous, fibrillary, fibrous, more...

Opposite:
solid, continuous, unbroken, homogeneous

Types:
carbon, tungsten, nichrome, rhenium, indium, germanium, silicon, more...

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Similar:
filamented, filamental, microfilamentous, myofilamentary, myofilamentous, pseudofilamentous, fibrillar, fibrinous, fibrillary, fibrous, more...

Opposite:
solid, continuous, unbroken, homogeneous

Types:
carbon, tungsten, nichrome, rhenium, indium, germanium, silicon, more...



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