armament

/ˈɑrməmənt/

Other forms: armaments

Use the noun armament to talk about the kind of weapons that armies use when they wage wars. A tank, for example, is an armament.

The word armament is good for describing heavy duty weaponry and the equipment that's associated with it, like bombs, fighter jets, tanks, and assault rifles. It's even more common to use the plural form, armaments. In the seventeenth century, the word was mainly used to mean "naval force equipped for war," and it comes from the Latin root armare, "to arm, or to furnish with weapons."

Definitions of armament

1. noun

   weaponry used by military or naval force
   types:

   armory, armoury, arsenal

   all the weapons and equipment that a country has

   artillery, gun, heavy weapon, ordnance

   large but transportable armament

   broadside

   all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship

   launcher, rocket launcher

   armament in the form of a device capable of launching a rocket

   munition, ordnance, ordnance store

   military supplies

   torpedo

   armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target

   aerial torpedo

   a torpedo designed to be launched from an airplane

   bangalore torpedo

   a metal pipe filled with explosive, used to detonate land mines or to clear a path through barbed wire

   bazooka

   a portable rocket launcher used by infantrymen as an antitank weapon

   cannon

   a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels

   field 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 pounds

   homing torpedo

   a torpedo that is guided to its target (as by the sound of a ship's engines)

   submarine torpedo

   a torpedo designed to be launched from a submarine

   type of:

   arms, implements of war, munition, weaponry, weapons system

   weapons considered collectively
2. noun

   the act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war
   synonyms: arming, equipping

   antonyms:

   disarmament

   act of reducing or depriving of arms

   types:

   outfitting

   the act of renovating and fitting out a ship

   rearmament

   the act of arming again

   refit

   outfitting a ship again (by repairing or replacing parts)

   type of:

   militarisation, militarization, mobilisation, mobilization

   act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: "mobilization of the troops"