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armature

UK/ˈɑː.mə.tjʊə//ˈɑɹ.mə.t͡ʃʊɚ/

armature noun: a detachment of soldiers; soldiers collectively.

Noun

armature (plural armatures)

  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.
  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.
    Synonyms:
    keeper
  7. (sculpture) 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.
    • It can take pictures or video from a front-facing camera, controlled by a voice command or a swipe on the right-hand armature, and is designed to display at-a-glance information on its screen which is visible only to the user.2014 June 24, “Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000”, in The Guardian

Verb

armature (third-person singular simple present armatures, present participle armaturing, simple past and past participle armatured)

  1. To provide with an armature (any sense).
    • T. S. Eliot had his legion of followers: the immaculate minor poet armaturing in exquisite technique a mildewed softness, and living a reminiscent universe which never existed.1940, Waldo David Frank, Chart for Rough Water: Our Role in a New World, page 147
    • "Armaturing to the larger size was just another challenge we had to face," comments Bruce.1986 January, Janeen A. Olsen, “Will Vinton Productions provided character animation for Walt Disney's RETURN TO OZ that was groundbreaking”, in Cinefantastique, volume 15, number 5, Oak Park, IL...

armature meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Tagalog and Arabic

armature in Tamil

மின்னகம், காந்த விசைக்கை, சுழலுஞ்சுருள், ஒலிபெருக்கி, மின் ஆக்கப் பொறியின் கருப்பகுதி, சிற்பத்தைத் தாங்கப் பயன்படும் சட்டம்

armature in Bengali

মূর্তি, ভাস্কর্যের ভেতরের কাঠামো, বৈদ্যুতিক মোটরের কুণ্ডলী

armature in Tagalog

the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo
paakma

armature in Arabic

the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo
درع

Examples of armature in a sentence

  • Alonzo knew instantly how to armature his horse figures, by using some self-fashioned wires, to capture the real-life motion of his stallions.2011, Darold A. Treffert, Daniel Tammet, Islands of Genius:
  • Beginning and end must strive to armature these.2012, Phil Wallace Payne, The Strivers, →ISBN:

All 14 example sentences with armature

Synonyms of armature

Forms of armature

Noun
pluralarmatures
Verb
third-person singular presentarmatures
present participlearmaturing
past participlearmatured
pastarmatured

Plural of armature: armatures

Origin of armature

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

Words formed from armature

Questions about armature

What does armature mean?
Armature means a detachment of soldiers; soldiers collectively.
What is armature in Tamil?
Armature in Tamil is மின்னகம், காந்த விசைக்கை, சுழலுஞ்சுருள். See Armature meaning in Tamil.
How do you use armature in a sentence?
Alonzo knew instantly how to armature his horse figures, by using some self-fashioned wires, to capture the real-life motion of his stallions.
What part of speech is armature?
Armature can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce armature?
Armature is pronounced /ˈɑː.mə.tjʊə/ (UK).
What is the plural of armature?
The plural of armature is armatures.

Words near armature in the dictionary

  1. armator
  2. armators
  3. Armatos
  4. Armatrading
  5. Armatree
  6. armature
  7. armatured
  8. armatureless
  9. armatures
  10. armaturing
  11. Armaud

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Adapted from Wiktionary: armature (page history and authors); armature (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); armature (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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