Ordnance

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Military materiel, such as weapons, ammunition, combat vehicles, and equipment.
  • n. The branch of an armed force that procures, maintains, and issues weapons, ammunition, and combat vehicles.
  • n. Cannon; artillery.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.
  • n. artillery.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons, ammunitiion, and appliances used in war.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Cannon or great guns collectively, including mortars and howitzers; artillery.
  • n. A board composed of United States ordnance-officers distinguished for their attainments in the theory and practice of heavy ordnance, its construction and use, whose duty it is to conduct experiments, and test and report upon all ordnance subjects referred to it by the chief of ordnance. This board is designated by the Secretary of War, and is advisory to the chief of ordnance of the army.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. military supplies
  • n. large but transportable armament
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    armament   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    artillery    artiller   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    munitions    artillery    ammunition    armament    aviation    matériel    gunnery    firearm    cannon    musketry