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Meaning of armature in English
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/ˈɑrməˌtʃʊr/
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Noun
armature
Etymology
late Middle English: from French, from Latin armatura‘armor’, from armare‘to arm’ (see arm). The original sense was ‘armor’, hence ‘protective covering’ (armature (sense 3), early 18th century), later ‘keeper of a magnet’, source of armature (sense 1) (mid 19th century)
Definitions
1.
coil in which voltage is induced by motion through a magnetic field