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  • noun Plural form of armature.

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Examples

  • The moving coils of wire or "armatures" should rotate freely without touching the iron pole-pieces of the fixed portion of the machine.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various

  • Broken armatures are decked out with amoebic limbs; organic substances abutted against geometric plastic.

    This week's new exhibitions 2012

  • Jacqueline Schmidt 'At the Cabin,' 14 x 12 x 12 inches, both by Jacqueline Schmidt For five years, the artist, designer and creative director of New York's kid-centric cafe Moomah, has turned wooden armatures into fantastical microenvironments: a living room inhabited by giraffes, a lush English garden, an epoxy-and-resin waterfall with a mermaid mid-dive.

    Design's Smaller Pleasures 2012

  • That's fine, but what keeps this show from being nothing much more than historical nostalgia Mallary died in 1997 are his sinister figures made from resin-impregnated tuxedos and steel armatures, which could take on one of Louise Bourgeois's spiders.

    ArtScene: Southern California's Top Ten Exhibition Picks for 2010 ArtScene 2011

  • That's fine, but what keeps this show from being nothing much more than historical nostalgia Mallary died in 1997 are his sinister figures made from resin-impregnated tuxedos and steel armatures, which could take on one of Louise Bourgeois's spiders.

    ArtScene: Southern California's Top Ten Exhibition Picks for 2010 ArtScene 2011

  • The country was put into the hands of armatures that interfered with the professionals because “they knew best” for 8 years.

    Think Progress » Maddow Corrects GOP Rep. Schock On Basic Facts Of Abdulmuttalab Case 2010

  • Her framed wall pieces ( "Eye," "Glass"), with their twig-like wire armatures and paper skins, look like diagrams or X-rays of three-dimensional sculptures.

    ArtScene: California Exhibitions that Keep the Summer Hot 2010

  • Her framed wall pieces ( "Eye," "Glass"), with their twig-like wire armatures and paper skins, look like diagrams or X-rays of three-dimensional sculptures.

    ArtScene: California Exhibitions that Keep the Summer Hot 2010

  • Fashioned by District schoolkids working with metal armatures created by Adam Curtis of Gaithersburg-based Design-Weld, the insects hover above storefronts (Home Rule, Pulp, Room & Board), a restaurant (Busboys & Poets), a community center (Martha's Table) and a theater (Source).

    ARTS BRIEFS 2010

  • Her framed wall pieces ( "Eye," "Glass"), with their twig-like wire armatures and paper skins, look like diagrams or X-rays of three-dimensional sculptures.

    ArtScene: California Exhibitions that Keep the Summer Hot 2010

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