Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
related to or having filaments (especially across a field of view as in the eyepiece of a telescope);
- Example: "a filar eyepiece"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Filar \Fi"lar\, a. [L. filum a thread.]
Of or pertaining to a thread or line; characterized by
threads stretched across the field of view; as, a filar
microscope; a filar micrometer.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
filar
adj 1: related to or having filaments (especially across a field
of view as in the eyepiece of a telescope); "a filar
eyepiece"