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ARMATURE (from Lat. armatura, armour)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 563 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARMATURE (from See also:Lat. armatura, See also:armour) , a covering for See also:defence. In See also:zoology the word is used of the bony See also:shell of the See also:armadillo. In See also:architecture it is applied to the See also:iron stays by which the See also:lead See also:lights are secured in windows. (See See also:STANCHION and See also:SADDLE: Saddle-Bars.) In See also:magnetism Dr See also:William See also:Gilbert applied the See also:term to the piece of soft iron with which he " armed " or capped the lodestone in See also:order to increase its See also:power. It is also used for the " keeper " or piece of iron which is placed across the poles of a See also:horse-See also:shoe magnet, and held in See also:place by magnetic attraction, in order to See also:complete the magnetic See also:circuit and preserve the magnetism of the See also:steel; and hence, in See also:dynamo-electric machinery, for the portion which is attracted by the electromagnet, as the moving See also:part of an electric motor, or, by See also:extension, the moving part of a dynamo (q.v.).

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