filamentary
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However, today's leading neuromorphic systems, often based on oxide materials and filamentary switching, still function like carefully engineered machines that imitate learning rather than materials that naturally contain it.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2026
Although these structures are lighter than the molecular clouds with filamentary structures, they are still quite similar in other crucial aspects.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2025
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
The clumps provided the framework for the large-scale filamentary and bubble-like structures that we see preserved in the universe today.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
The shell of the nut serves to make vases, and the filamentary parts are spun into ropes and cables for ships, and even into coarse clothing.
From Adventures in the Philippine Islands by Paul P. de La Gironière
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