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FILAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does filar mean?
• FILAR (adjective)
The adjective FILAR has 1 sense:
1. related to or having filaments (especially across a field of view as in the eyepiece of a telescope)
Familiarity information: FILAR used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Related to or having filaments (especially across a field of view as in the eyepiece of a telescope)
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
a filar eyepiece
Pertainym:
filament (a very slender natural or synthetic fiber)
Derivation:
filum (a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells))
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