Dialect. The term dialect is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. variety of a language (specifically, often a spoken variety) that is characteristic of a particular area, community or group, often with relatively minor differences in vocabulary, style, spelling and pronunciation.
An electrical filament in an incandescent light bulb; Similarly, a thin heating element; Current filament; Filament propagation, diffractionless propagation of a light beam; 3D printing filament, used as raw material for Fused deposition modeling 3D printers; In astronomy
1. a very fine thread or threadlike structure; a fiber or fibril: filaments of gold. 2. the stalklike portion of a stamen, supporting the anther. 3. (in an incandescent lamp) the threadlike conductor, often of tungsten, that is heated to incandescence by the passage of current. 4. the heating element of a vacuum tube, resembling the filament in an incandescent lamp.