ordnance
IPA: ˈɔrdnʌns
noun
- Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.
- Artillery.
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Examples of "ordnance" in Sentences
- "They must have ordnance -- that's the English word, isn't it --"
- Col. Hauck, who developed an expertise in ordnance, was a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars.
- Perhaps the opposite table will give a fair idea of the changes in English ordnance during the eighteenth century.
- As in apparently the large amount of expended depleted uranium ordnance is having a very bad effect on the health of Afghanis.
- Use of WP in built up civilian areas would have been deliberate given that alternative smoke-generating ordnance is available.
- The calibre, if you are using Western ordnance, is and has been for decades, 155mm, as can be seen from Reuter's "picture of the month".
- The sprawling army ordnance community—known as the ordnance corps—was a network of arsenals, laboratories, and far-flung commands that together had evolved into an empire within the armed services, replete with its own biases and mores.
- What will be different in this test-fire is the mesh pattern produced when the bullet passes through the window screen before ripping through the Harley jacket and buzz-sawing a swath through the chest of Mr. Jell-O, as he calls his ordnance-gelatin test dummies.
- Nobody wanted to face the three-hour flight back to Kuwait with packages undelivered — it made the flight longer and burned fuel like crazy; and to face the crew that had worked like dogs to ready the aircraft, load the bombs, and paint love notes to Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammed Omar on the ordnance was a full-bore bummer.
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