as in structure
the arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form
the rigid armature of a highly stratified society
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Recent Examples of armature
It’s made of steel armatures and outfitted with an internal irrigation system.
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Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2025
And yet this is your starting point; this is the kind of the armature that the whole enterprise hangs from.
—Jeff Wise, Vulture, 26 May 2025
Half a dozen balanced armature drivers bring precision to the mid-to-high frequencies.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
After the sculpting is done, the puppets are separated into pieces, and an interior armature is made of steel ball-and-socket joints that can be used to animate the character.
—Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2025
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Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2025
And yet this is your starting point; this is the kind of the armature that the whole enterprise hangs from.
—Jeff Wise, Vulture, 26 May 2025
Half a dozen balanced armature drivers bring precision to the mid-to-high frequencies.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
After the sculpting is done, the puppets are separated into pieces, and an interior armature is made of steel ball-and-socket joints that can be used to animate the character.
—Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for armature
Recent Examples of Synonyms for armature
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Traditional data lakes can store raw data at scale but lack quality controls, while warehouses enforce structure but struggle with unstructured or fast changing data.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Leaders who can diagnose feedback loops, surface mental models and align vision with structure will turn collaboration from aspiration into execution.—
Thomas Lim,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Even when using global providers like Microsoft, governance frameworks must be built to manage the trade-off between convenience and control.—
Francois Botha,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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The results, obtained at the US Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, provide a new framework for studying the proton’s internal structure.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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Cognitive architecture built in youth provides the scaffolding for a lifetime of learning.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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The project preserves the mid-20th century architecture of the Pan Am building, maintaining its historical significance.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
11 Sep. 2025
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Most of the eggs there belong to the species Placoolithus tumiaolingensis in the Dendroolithidae family, a classification that is derived from the eggs rather than from a dinosaur’s fossil skeleton.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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The interweaving crime-movie and possible alien-abduction threads vining around the empty skeleton at this movie’s center never quite cohere, and on-camera interviews with any number of the criminal teens offer no emotional scaffold to grab onto.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Armature.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/armature. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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