filamentary
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These simulations predicted what such filamentary structures should look like under current cosmological models.
From Science Daily • May 16, 2026
That’s one of the plans that we have to test this idea of the stretching and elongation and alignment of these filamentary structures.
From Scientific American • Jun. 22, 2023
They also predict that when scholars are able to observe these radio structures in higher resolution, they will discover additional features, including "a much more complex filamentary structure," among other things.
From Salon • Oct. 27, 2021
Molecular clouds have a complex filamentary structure, similar to cirrus clouds in Earth’s atmosphere, but much less dense.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
It was a species of “Spanish moss,” or “old man’s beard,” so called, from the resemblance of its long white filamentary leaves to the hairs of a venerable pair of whiskers.
From Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Beach, Charles A.
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