Materiel vs. Equipment — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Materiel and Equipment
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Materiel
Materiel or matériel (pronounced , from French: matériel, lit. 'equipment, hardware') refers to supplies, equipment, and weapons in military supply-chain management, and typically supplies and equipment in a commercial supply chain context.In a military context, the term "materiel" refers either to the specific needs (excluding manpower) of a force to complete a specific mission, or the general sense of the needs (excluding manpower) of a functioning army.Materiel management consists of continuing actions relating to planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, controlling, and evaluating the application of resources to ensure the effective and economical support of military forces. It includes provisioning, cataloging, requirements determination, acquisition, distribution, maintenance, and disposal.
Equipment
The act of equipping or the state of being equipped
Responsible for the rapid equipment of the troops.
Materiel
The equipment, apparatus, and supplies of a military force or other organization.
Equipment
Something with which a person, organization, or thing is equipped
The athletes keep their equipment in the locker room.
Materiel
Military equipment, apparatus, and supplies.
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Equipment
The rolling stock especially of a transportation system.
Materiel
That in a complex system which constitutes the materials, or instruments employed, in distinction from the personnel, or men; as, the baggage, munitions, provisions, etc., of an army; or the buildings, libraries, and apparatus of a college, in distinction from its officers.
Equipment
The mental and emotional resources of an individual
Doesn't have the equipment to cope.
Materiel
Equipment and supplies of a military force
Equipment
The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
Equipment
Any items used in equipping something or someone, for example things needed for an expedition or voyage.
We need more gardening equipment if we want to properly landscape our yard, not just a rake and some gloves.
The sports shop sells different kits of famous clubs, and equipment from all kind of sports.
Equipment
The male genitalia.
Equipment
The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
The equipment of the fleet was hastened by De Witt.
Equipment
Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments.
Armed and dight,In the equipments of a knight.
Equipment
An instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service
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