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armatures

noun

plural of armature

as in structures

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 armatures Built around a 10mm dynamic driver and dual custom balanced armatures, Vanguarg is designed to deliver a precise listening experience with control, clarity and balance. — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

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For New Wave, Ropion and McCurtin looked to one of perfumery’s most enduring structures—the amber accord—and considered how to reinterpret it for today.

— Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026
Rates and fee structures for checking and savings accounts are subject to change, and interest rates can rise or fall along with the federal funds rate.

— Andreina Rodriguez, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of structures

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Businesses face a growing body of legislation, reporting requirements and regulatory frameworks that can potentially overlap.

— Ben Vanpeperstraete, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026
This theory, also known as active inference or the free energy principle, has become one of the most important frameworks in neuroscience for understanding how the brain works as a whole.

— Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of frameworks

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The team used Argonne’s Hardware/Hybrid Accelerated Cosmology Code (HACC), developed to run large-scale cosmological simulations across different supercomputing architectures.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
Design architectures that can introduce emerging compute resources without rebuilding the enterprise around them.

— Rajjie Sarmey, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of architectures

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And while suburban or rural locales might offer the luxury of space—a sprawling front yard for your 12-foot skeletons to roam free, for instance—in New York City, the limitations of scale just mean people have to get creative.

— Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026
Costumed skeletons and witches don’t bother him – but his jitters about performing on stage do.

— Liz Rosenberg, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2026

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