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Floc vs Filament - What's the difference?

floc | filament |

As nouns the difference between floc and filament

is that floc is an alternative word for floccule a soft or fluffy particle suspended in a liquid or the fluffy mass of suspended particles so formed floc may be mineral as for clay, chemical as in water treatment or biological as in sewage treatment while filament is a fine thread or wire.

floc

English

Alternative forms

* flocc

Noun

  • An alternative word for floccule. A soft or fluffy particle suspended in a liquid or the fluffy mass of suspended particles so formed. Floc may be mineral as for clay, chemical as in water treatment or biological as in sewage treatment.
  • Anagrams

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    filament

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • solar filament
    galaxy filament
    the Ursa Major Filament
  • (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.