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- Armature - n. - Armor; whatever is worn or used for the protection and defense of the body, esp. the protective outfit of some animals and plants.
- Armature - n. - 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.
- Armature - n. - Iron bars or framing employed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc.
- Stegosaurus - n. - A genus of large Jurassic dinosaurs remarkable for a powerful dermal armature of plates and spines.
- Winding - n. - A line- or ribbon-shaped material (as wire, string, or bandaging) wound around an object; as, the windings (conducting wires) wound around the armature of an electric motor or generator.
- Incus - n. - The central portion of the armature of the pharynx in the Rotifera.
- Differential - n. - One of two coils of conducting wire so related to one another or to a magnet or armature common to both, that one coil produces polar action contrary to that of the other.
- Enopla - n. pl. - One of the orders of Nemertina, characterized by the presence of a peculiar armature of spines or plates in the proboscis.
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