monofilamentn.adj.

1935 Berkshire County Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 17 July 1/1 An amendment to the AAA bill..was pending in the Senate today to impose a tax of five cents a pound on the processing of any material for the production of rayon... Rayon and other synthetic fiber waste, staple fiber, ropes of more than 500 filaments, monofilaments and products thereof would be exempt.

1949 Mod. Plastics Nov. 69/1 Nylon monofilaments are well established as a material for bristles.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIV. 519/1 Reinforcements [for plastics] include cotton and asbestos flocks; glass fibres, chopped or in the form of rovings, mats, or monofilaments; carbon fibres; and mineral whiskers.

1985 New Yorker 26 Aug. 72/2 The line used on spinning reels is called monofilament—a single strand of nylon, much like the leader material you tie to the end of a plastic-coated fly line.

1997 J. Wilson Coarse Fishing Method Man. (1998) 185/1 Also called the figure-of-eight knot (in the US) the two-turn half blood would seem ridiculous if using monofilaments because it would of course instantly slip.

1937 Escanaba (Mich.) Daily Press 18 Jan. 9/2 For bluegill and perch and other smaller species, use a monofilament line, 3 to 4 pounds test, mainly because its practically invisible under water.

1960 Aeroplane 98 43/3 The chafer covering the bead is of monofilament nylon, as in the case of all other Firestone tubeless tyres.

1973 Sci. Amer. Dec. 134/1 New forms of nylon rope without stretch (a braided sheath around a monofilament core) are used for the long, dark climb.

1989 Japan Times 20 May 3/1 The small-mesh monofilament nets..hang in the water.