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The rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo, which mostly consists of coils of wire around a metal core.

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The moving part in an electromechanical device like a loudspeaker or a buzzer.

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A piece of soft steel or iron that connects the poles of a magnet

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A supporting framework in a sculpture.

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A kinematic chain (a system of bones or rigid bodies connected by joints) that is used to pose and deform models, often character models.

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A protective organ, structure, or covering of an animal or plant, for defense or offense, like claws, teeth, thorns, or the shell of a turtle.

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Armor, or a suit of armor.

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Any apparatus for defence.

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The frame of a pair of glasses.

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To provide with an armature (any sense).

In the earlier forms of instrument the record was made by embossing lines on a ribbon of paper by means of a sharp style fixed to one end of a lever, which carried at the other end the armature of an electromagnet.

The wire which connects two armature plates for a moment is the neutralizing conductor.

The experiments with this form were not successful, and, with the view of making the moving parts as light as possible, he substituted for the comparatively heavy lever armature a small piece of clock spring, about the size of a sixpence, glued to the centre of the diaphragm.

This last is geared to the shaft of the armature by an endless screw, and the number of revolutions of the armature is reckoned by the counting-dials, which are ' See Electrician, 41, 112, and Journ.

He has applied the theory with especial ingenuity to the interpretation of the circular bony plates in the carapace of the aberrant leather-back sea-turtles (Sphargidae) by prefacing an initial land phase, in which the typical armature of land tortoises was acquired, a first marine or pelagic phase, in which this armature was lost, a third littoral or seashore phase, in which a new polygonal armature was acquired, and a fourth resumed or secondary marine phase, in which this polygonal armature began to degenerate.

There is no armature, and no glands, and the whole tract can only be divided into an oesophagus and an intestine.

Operators who used the recorder soon learned to read the message by the click of the armature against its stop, and as this left the hands and eyes free to write, reading by sound was usually preferred.

The current to be measured passes through the fixed field-coils, whilst through the armature passes a shunt current obtained by connecting the brushes across the supply mains through a constant resistance.

The driving force is balanced against a retarding force produced by the rotation of a copper disk fixed on the armature shaft, which rotates between the poles of a permanent magnet.

In these circumstances the number of rotations made by the armature in a given time is proportional to the product of the strength of the current flowing through the armature and that flowing through the field-coils, the former being the current to be measured.

Hence when a current is passed through the meter, the armature rotates and increases its speed until the driving force is balanced against the retarding force due to the eddy currents in the copper brake disk.

The tenth abdominal segment carries strong, unjointed cerci, while the presence of reproductive armature on the second abdominal segment of the male is a character found in no other order of the Hexapoda.

The armature consists of a bony case, partly composed of solid buckler-like plates, and partly of movable transverse bands, the latter differing in number with the species, and giving to the body a considerable degree of flexibility.

It is sluggish in its movements, and so harmless that its armature and (to a casual observer) repulsive appearance are its sole means of defence.

When one of a series of keys (each corresponding to a letter) arranged round a pointer is depressed, the motion of the pointer, which is geared to the shuttle armature, is arrested on coming opposite that particular key, and the transmission of the currents to line is stopped, though the armature itself can continue to rotate.

When a current passes through R the armature A is attracted and the local circuit is closed through the armature at b.

Now if the values of the rheostat and condenser are adjusted so as to make the rise and fall of the outgoing current through both windings of the relay exactly equal, then no effect is produced on the armature of the relay, as the two currents neutralize each other's magnetizing effect.

The result is that the armature of the relay is attracted, and currents are sent through the sounder from the local battery, producing the signals from the distant station.

For the dot the armature is deflected by the first current, the ink-wheel being brought into contact with the paper and after a short interval pulled back by the reverse current.

In most of the systems that have been proposed this result is attained by electrical regulation; in one, however, a mechanical method is adopted, the dynamo being so' hung that it allows the driving belt to slip when the speed of the axle exceeds a certain limit, the armature thus being rotated at an approximately constant speed.

The genital armature of the male is formed to a considerable extent by modifications of the segments themselves.

The development of the armature has been little studied, and the question whether there may be present gonapophyses homologous with those of the female is open.

They are cylindrical worm-like animals, with a median anterior mouth quite devoid of any armature or tentacles.

The mouth, which is quite devoid of armature, leads imperceptibly into a short and dorsally directed oesophagus.

The length and armature of the pincers and the presence or absence of wings are perhaps the most important features used by systematists in distinguishing the various kinds.

As all these animals are killed by the poison of the snake before they are swallowed, and as their muscles are perfectly relaxed, their armature is harmless to the snake, which begins to swallow its prey from the head, and depresses the spines as deglutition proceeds.

With regard to the degree in which this armature is developed, not only do the species differ from each other, but almost every species shows an extraordinary amount of variation.

The torque acting on the armature of an electric motor is necessarily accompanied by an equal and opposite torque acting on the FIG.

In one the exciting armature is rotated, producing the working voltage of 250, 500 or loon volts.

One of these coils is in series with the armature circuit and with the insulation or high resistance to be measured.

When the armature is rotated, these two coils endeavour to place themselves in certain directions in the field so as to be perforated by the greatest magnetic flux.

These have a speed reduction from armature shaft to bridge column of 1500 to I, through four intermediate spur gears and a worm gear.

The mass of mercury is thus set in motion owing to the tendency of a conductor conveying an electric current to move transversely across lines of magnetic force; it becomes in fact the armature of a simple form of dynamo, and rotates with a speed which increases with the strength of the current.

It takes the form of a small dynamo having an armature and field magnets without any iron core.

The armature carries on its shaft a commutator made of silver slips, and the current is fed into the armature by means of brushes of silver wire.

The children all made a small armature with soft metal rods.

These springs are so adjusted that they are not quite able to release the armature.

The male opening is on the ninth abdominal segment, to which belong the processes that form the claspers or genital armature.

Most male Hymenoptera have processes which form claspers or genital armature.

The rate at which the motor is transmitting work is then 550 H.P., where n is the revolutions per second of the armature.

The other is a shunt across the terminals of the armature.

In one of these a copper disk, called the brake disk, revolves, and in the other a copper armature disk.

It consisted of a fixed horseshoe armature wound over with insulated copper wire in front of which revolved about a vertical axis a horseshoe magnet.

Siemens effected a great improvement by inventing a shuttle armature and improving the shape of the field magnet.

In this new form of bobbin, the armature consisted of a ring of iron wire wound over with an endless coil of wire and connected to a commutator consisting of copper bars insulated from one another.

Early in 1831 he arranged a small office-bell to be tapped by the polarized armature of an "intensity" magnet, whose coil was in continuation of a mile of insulated copper wire, suspended about one of the rooms of his academy.

In a few Entomostraca (some Phyllopoda and Ostracoda) the chitinous lining of the fore-gut develops spines and hairs which help to triturate and strain the food, and among the Ostracods there is occasionally (Bairdia) a more elaborate armature of toothed plates moved by muscles.

Perhaps the most striking example is the zoea-like larva of the Sergestidae, known as Elaphocaris, which has an extraordinary armature of ramified spines.

Planning and design skills, making skills creating wire armature, review, evaluation and modification of work.

These went down to the main floor where they were assembled into electro magnetic arrays which formed the armature.