żarnik — meaning in English

English meaning

• filament noun A very thin thread or wire-like strand.

Senses

żarnik is used for these senses in English:

• filament Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.

filament — full definition

1. noun A very thin thread or wire-like strand.
2. noun The thin coil inside an incandescent light bulb that glows white-hot when electricity passes through it.
3. noun In botany, the thin stalk of a stamen that holds up the anther in a flower.
4. noun A continuous spool of material, such as the plastic thread fed into a 3D printer.