Filament

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A threadlike conductor, usually of tungsten (or of carbon), which is heated to incandescence by the passage of an electric current.

Reference: C.I.E.

Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)

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ampere

Contrast

Celsius (previously Centigrade)

Capacitance

charge current

Intensity

Illuminance

Energy

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