filar

[fahy-ler]

adjective

1. of or relating to a thread or threads.

2. having threads or the like.

filar

/ ˈfaɪlə /

adjective

1. of thread

2. (of an optical instrument) having fine threads across the eyepiece forming a reticle or set of cross wires

Other Word Forms

• interfilar adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of filar¹

1870–75; < Latin fīl ( um ) a thread + -ar ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of filar¹

C19: from Latin fīlum thread

Example Sentences

To Bouguer in 1748 is due the true conception of measurement by double image without the auxiliary aid of a filar micrometer, viz. by changing the distance between two object-glasses of equal focus.

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According to Prof. Skeat it is derived from the Span. filigrana, from “filar, to spin, and grano, the grain or principal fibre of the material.”

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Place the filar micrometer and the stage micrometer in their respective positions.

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The method of observing which Brünnow employed was quite different from that of Struve, though the filar micrometer was used in both cases.

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For several thousand years the stars have been called "fixed," but the fine rulings of the filar micrometer tell a different story.

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