military force responsible for dealing with ammunitions (purchase, storage, and distribution); artillery; weaponry
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Ordnance Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons and appliances used in war.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutHeavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons and appliances used in war.
ordnance
\ord"nance\ (?), n. [from oe. ordenance, referring orig. to the bore or size of the cannon. see ordinance.] heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons 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. ererett.
ordnance
survey, the official survey of great britain and ireland, conducted by the ordnance department.
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ordnance stores
ordnance survey
A general name for all kinds of weapons and their appliances used in war.
Noun
1. military supplies
(synonym) munitions, ordnance stores
(hypernym) armament
2. large but transportable armament
(synonym) artillery, heavy weapon, gun
(hypernym) armament
(hyponym) cannon
(part-holonym) battery
(part-meronym) stock, gunstock
Ordnance Definition from Government Dictionaries & Glossaries
Explosives, chemicals, pyrotechnics, and similar stores, e.g., bombs, guns and ammunition, flares, smoke, or napalm.
Source: U.S. Department of Defense, Joint Doctrine Division. ( About )Ordnance Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Ordnance may refer to:
- Military:
- Weapons and ammunition
- Military logistics, especially provision of weapons and ammunition
- Ordnance weapon, a personal weapon issued to a member of a military unit
- Aircraft ordnance, weapons carried by and used by an aircraft
- Artillery
- artillery shells, specifically unexploded ordnance
- Ordnance Datum, (from use in ballistics) a vertical datum used as the basis for deriving altitudes on maps
- Ordnance, Oregon, a former community near the Umatilla Chemical Depot
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