ARMATURE
\ˈɑːmət͡ʃˌʊ͡ə], \ˈɑːmətʃˌʊə], \ˈɑː_m_ə_tʃ_ˌʊə]\
Definitions of ARMATURE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Armor; whatever is worn or used for the protection and defense of the body, esp. the protective outfit of some animals and plants.
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A piece of soft iron used to connect the two poles of a magnet, or electro-magnet, in order to complete the circuit, or to receive and apply the magnetic force. In the ordinary horseshoe magnet, it serves to prevent the dissipation of the magnetic force.
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Iron bars or framing employed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc.
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That part of a dynamo or electric generator or of an electric motor in which a current is induced by a relatively moving magnetic field. The armature usually consists of a series of coils or groups of insulated conductors surrounding a core of iron.
By Oddity Software
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Armor; whatever is worn or used for the protection and defense of the body, esp. the protective outfit of some animals and plants.
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A piece of soft iron used to connect the two poles of a magnet, or electro-magnet, in order to complete the circuit, or to receive and apply the magnetic force. In the ordinary horseshoe magnet, it serves to prevent the dissipation of the magnetic force.
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Iron bars or framing employed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc.
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That part of a dynamo or electric generator or of an electric motor in which a current is induced by a relatively moving magnetic field. The armature usually consists of a series of coils or groups of insulated conductors surrounding a core of iron.
By Noah Webster.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Any defensive equipment of a plant or an animal.
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The keeper of a magnet; a piece of soft iron placed in contact with the poles of a_ magnet, to prevent the dissipation of its magnetic force. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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