[ar.ma.ture] n [L armatura armor, equipment, fr. armatus] (15c) 1: an organ or structure (as teeth or thorns) for offense or defense
2. a: a piece of soft iron or steel that connects the poles of a magnet or of adjacent magnets b: a usu. 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 c: the movable part of an electromagnetic device (as a loudspeaker) d: a framework used by a sculptor to support a figure being modeled in a plastic material e: framework 1b "the ~ of the book derives from fourteenth century England --Stanley Kauffmann"