Armament vs. Ordnance

Armamentnoun

A body of forces equipped for war.

Ordnancenoun

Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.

Armamentnoun

All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.

Ordnancenoun

Artillery.

Armamentnoun

Any equipment for resistance.

Ordnancenoun

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.

‘All the battlements their ordnance fire.’; ‘Then you may hear afar off the awful roar of his [Rufus Choate's] rifled ordnance.’;

Armamentnoun

The process of building up military capacity.

Ordnancenoun

military supplies

Armamentnoun

A body of forces equipped for war; - used of a land or naval force.

Ordnancenoun

large but transportable armament

Armamentnoun

All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.

Armamentnoun

Any equipment for resistance.

Armamentnoun

weaponry used by military or naval force

Armamentnoun

the act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war