ARMATURE

noun Etymology: Middle English, armor, from Latin armatura armor, equipment, from armatus Date: 15th century an organ or structure (as teeth or thorns) for offense or defense, 2. a piece of soft iron or steel that connects the poles of a magnet or of adjacent magnets, a usually rotating part of an electric machine (as a generator or motor) which consists essentially of coils of wire around a metal core and in which electric current is induced or in which the input current interacts with a magnetic field to produce torque, the movable part of an electromagnetic device (as a loudspeaker), a framework used by a sculptor to support a figure being modeled in a plastic material, framework 1a