Filament vs Desmin - What's the difference?
filament | desmin |
A fine thread or wire.
Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
(physics, astronomy) A massive, thread-like structure, such as those gaseous ones which extend outward from the surface of the sun, or such as those (much larger) ones which form the boundaries between large voids in the universe.
(botany) The stalk of a stamen in a flower, supporting the anther.
(textiles) A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.
(biochemistry) A protein that is a type III intermediate filament found near the Z line in sarcomeres.
As nouns the difference between filament and desmin
is that filament is a fine thread or wire while desmin is (biochemistry) a protein that is a type iii intermediate filament found near the z line in sarcomeres.filament
English
Noun
(en noun)- solar filament
- galaxy filament
- the Ursa Major Filament