Meaning

11 senses
  1. A detachment of soldiers; soldiers collectively.

  2. Armor, such as a suit of armor, weapons and other military equipment.

  3. The art of using arms and armour in combat; skill at arms; a mode or manner of armed combat.

  4. The rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo, which mostly consists of coils of wire (the winding) around a metal core.

    Anker

    я́корьjákorʹ

  5. The moving part in an electromechanical device like a loudspeaker or a buzzer.

  6. A piece of soft steel or iron that connects the poles of a magnet, to preserve its strength by forming a circuit.

  7. A supporting framework in a sculpture.

  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.

  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.

  10. Any apparatus for defence.

  11. The frame of a pair of glasses.

More definitions
  • coil in which voltage is induced by motion through a magnetic field

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French armature, from Latin armātūra (“armour”). Doublet of armor and

Borrowed from Middle French armature, from Latin armātūra (“armour”). Doublet of armor and armure.

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Forms

plural: armatures
Singulararmature
Pluralarmatures

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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