noun
Meaning 1
A detachment of soldiers; soldiers collectively.
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Standard Lemma guide
armature
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UK: /ˈɑː.mə.tjʊə/
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UK: /ˈɑː.mə.tjə/
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US: /ˈɑɹ.mə.t͡ʃʊɚ/
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US: /ˈɑɹ.mə.t͡ʃɚ/
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noun
Meaning 2
Armor, such as a suit of armor, weapons and other military equipment.
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noun
Meaning 3
The art of using arms and armour in combat; skill at arms; a mode or manner of armed combat.
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noun
Meaning 4
The rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo, which mostly consists of coils of wire (the winding) around a metal core.
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noun
Meaning 5
The moving part in an electromechanical device like a loudspeaker or a buzzer.
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noun
Meaning 6
A piece of soft steel or iron that connects the poles of a magnet, to preserve its strength by forming a circuit.
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noun
Meaning 7
A supporting framework in a sculpture.
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Qualifier: sculpture
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noun
Meaning 8
A kinematic chain (a system of bones or rigid bodies connected by joints) that is used to pose and deform models, often character models.
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Topics: computer-graphics, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 9
A protective organ, structure, or covering of an animal or plant, for defense or offense, like claws, teeth, thorns, or the shell of a turtle.
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noun
Meaning 10
Any apparatus for defence.
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noun
Meaning 11
The frame of a pair of glasses.
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verb
Meaning 12
To provide with an armature (any sense).
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noun
Meaning 13
coil in which voltage is induced by motion through a magnetic field
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Broader terms: coil
Narrower terms: rotor, rotor coil
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French armature, from Latin armātūra (“armour”). Doublet of armor and armure.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: درع — the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo
- Czech: kotva — the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo
- Finnish: ankkuri — the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo
- German: Anker — the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo
- Hebrew: עֹגֶן (ógen) — the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo
- Japanese: アーマチュア — the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo
- Māori: pōkaihuri — the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo
- Portuguese: armadura — the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo
- Russian: я́корь (jákorʹ) — the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo
- Spanish: inducido — the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo
- Tagalog: paakma — the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo
- Chinese Mandarin: 轉子 /转子 (zhuànzǐ) — the moving part in an electromechanical device like a loudspeaker or a buzzer
- Finnish: tukirakenne — sculpting
- Finnish: runko — sculpting
- Polish: armatura — sculpting
- Irish: cumhdach — a protective organ, structure, or covering
- Finnish: panssari — armor
- Finnish: kehys — glasses frame
- French: armature — Translations
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