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equipment|ɪˈkwɪpmənt|
[f. equip v. + -ment. Cf. Fr. équipement.]
1. a. The action or process of equipping or fitting out. b. The state or condition of being equipped; the manner in which a person or thing is equipped. Also fig.
a.1748Anson's Voy. i. i. 5 The equipment of the squadron was still prosecuted with as much vigour as ever. 1809Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. 33/1 Lord Liverpool also defended the equipment of the expedition to Portugal. 1875Whitney Life Lang. ii. 19 Mental training..as well as mental equipment. 1886Pall Mall G. 14 Dec. 9/1 For the endowment and equipment of a Chair of Anatomy.
b.1793Smeaton Edystone L. §123 Its equipment might suit the purposes of a Store-Vessel for our building service. 1841Elphinstone Hist. Ind. II. x. iii. 423 An army which seemed irresistible from its numbers and equipment. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Ability Wks. (Bohn) II. 38 The admirable equipment of their Arctic ships carries London to the pole. 1863Burton Bk. Hunter 261 The institution did not spring in full maturity and equipment, like Pallas from the brain of Jove.
2. concr. Anything used in equipping; furniture; outfit; warlike apparatus; necessaries for an expedition or voyage. Used in the pl. to indicate the articles severally, in the sing. collectively.
1717L. Howel Desiderius (ed. 3) 14 See my Crook, my Scrip, Box and other Parts of my equipment. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §275 To forward our equipments for rendering the house habitable. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. ii. i. 46 The hunting equipments of the female archers. 1813Wellington in Gurw. Disp. X. 479 When you shall be in possession of your equipment of ordnance, etc. 1870Howson Metaph. Paul i. 16 The helmet is..the brightest..part of the soldier's equipment. 1873Act 36 & 37 Vict. c. 88 Sched. 1, Equipments which are primâ facie evidence of a Vessel being engaged in the Slave Trade. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. III. 264, I include under the general term equipment all that must be actually present with the fighting portion of an army at any one moment.
b. fig. Intellectual ‘outfit’.
1841Myers Cath. Th. iii. xliii. 165 A valuable portion of a student's [of the Bible] equipment. 1873M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma 342 A hardly less grotesque object in his intellectual equipment for his task than in his outward attire. 1885M. Pattison Mem. 306 Our naive assumption that classical learning was a complete equipment for a great university. |