armature

Meanings

Noun

• The rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo, which mostly consists of coils of wire around a metal core.
• The moving part in an electromechanical device like a loudspeaker or a buzzer.
• A piece of soft steel or iron that connects the poles of a magnet, to preserve its strength by forming a circuit.
• A supporting framework in a sculpture.
• A kinematic chain (a system of bones or rigid bodies connected by joints) that is used to pose and deform models, often character models.
• 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.
• Armor, or a suit of armor.
• Any apparatus for defence.
• The frame of a pair of glasses.

Verb

• To provide with an armature (any sense).

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French armature, from Latin armātūra ("armour"). armor.