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The flexible wire in a lamp is called the filament. the word means 'thread-like', and it comes from the fact that you need a particularly thin section of wire in order to get the metal to incandesce (glow) at relatively low wattages.

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it is called a harp

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Q: What is the name of the wire piece that goes around a light bulb that holds a lampshade?
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