exoskeleton meaning
Noun: exoskeleton `eksow'skelit(u)n
- The exterior protective or supporting structure or shell of many animals (especially invertebrates) including bony or horny parts such as nails or scales or hoofs
Derived forms: exoskeletons
Type of: body covering, frame, skeletal system, skeleton, systema skeletale
Encyclopedia: Exoskeleton
[Electronics]
A robot that resembles a suit of armor, and that greatly magnifies the force of physical movements. A human operator occupies the interior. Thus, for example, the operator might use the machine to throw a football 2500 yards, or to run 50 miles an hour, or to smash through walls. Primarily a tool of science fiction writers, this machine is within the scope of current robotic technology.
[Medicine]
n
1 : an external supportive covering of an animal (as the system of sclerites covering the body of an insect) —compare ENDOSKELETON
2 : bony or horny parts (as nails, hooves, or scales) of a vertebrate produced from epidermal tissues — exo·skel·e·tal adj
Examples
More: Next- coral is actually the exoskeletons of coral polyps
- these formed the innards underneath the exoskeleton provided to the animators
- when a caterpillar sheds its final exoskeleton and mutates into a chrysalid, it is already well on its way to becoming a butterfly
- as zompro examined it under the microscope, he was struck by how much it resembled the exoskeleton he had just seen in london
- He must shed his spiky exoskeleton and become the front man.
