How to pronounce “armature”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A detachment of soldiers; soldiers collectively.
• Armor, such as a suit of armor, weapons and other military equipment.
• The art of using arms and armour in combat; skill at arms; a mode or manner of armed combat.
• The rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo, which mostly consists of coils of wire (the winding) 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.
• (sculpture) A supporting framework in a sculpture.
• (computer graphics) 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.
• Any apparatus for defence.
• The frame of a pair of glasses.
• [Verb]
• To provide with an armature (any sense).

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