ordnance

ordnance

military weapons as a whole; heavy guns; artillery
Not to be confused with:ordinance – law, practice, or custom; religious rite

ord·nance

O0112000 (ôrd′nəns)n.1. Military materiel, such as weapons, ammunition, combat vehicles, and equipment.2. The branch of an armed force that procures, maintains, and issues weapons, ammunition, and combat vehicles.3. Cannon; artillery.

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[Middle English ordnaunce, variant of ordinaunce, order, military provision; see ordinance.]

ordnance

(ˈɔːdnəns) n1. (Military) cannon or artillery2. (Military) military supplies; munitions3. (Military) the ordnance a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies[C14: variant of ordinance]

ord•nance

(ˈɔrd nəns)

n. 1. cannon or artillery. 2. military weapons with their equipment, ammunition, etc. 3. the army branch that deals with ordnance. [1620–30; syncopated variant of ordinance]

ordnance

Explosives, chemicals, pyrotechnics, and similar stores, e.g., bombs, guns and ammunition, flares, smoke, or napalm.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	ordnance - military supplies ordnance store, munitionarmament - weaponry used by military or naval force
	2.	ordnance - large but transportable armament artillery, heavy weapon, gunarmament - weaponry used by military or naval forcecannon - a large artillery gun that is usually on wheelsfield artillery, field gun - movable artillery (other than antiaircraft) used by armies in the field (especially for direct support of front-line troops)four-pounder - an artillery gun that throws a shot weighing four poundsgunstock, stock - the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun; "the rifle had been fitted with a special stock"battery - a collection of related things intended for use together; "took a battery of achievement tests"

ordnance

noun weapons, arms, guns, artillery, cannon, firearms, weaponry, big guns, armaments, munitions, materiel, instruments of war a team clearing an area littered with unexploded ordnance

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