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What is a microtubule?

What is a microtubule? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A small tube made of protein and found in cells; part of the cytoskeleton.
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The data was therefore convoluted with a profile that mimics the image of a microtubule to filter out the vertical coordinate.
These solutions show that the dynamics of motion is dramatically slowed down if one end of a microtubule is fixed instead of free.
Using cytologically tagged chromosomes, we established a role for the microtubule motor dynein in meiotic chromosome segregation.
In mitosis, microtubule spindle fibers attach to the kinetochores, pulling the chromatids apart.
The front head attaches to a microtubule with a displacement toward the plus end of the microtubule.
It is the sperm basal body that serves as a centriole in the zygotic microtubule organizing center.

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