Ordnance
noun
Large weapons like cannons and bombs.
The military base is equipped with heavy ordnance.
Often appears as...
- heavy ordnance
- naval ordnance
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The department of a government or military that supplies weapons.
He worked in the Ordnance Department of the British Army.
Often appears as...
- ordnance department
- ordnance corps
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A short term for Ordnance Survey, the national map-making body of the UK.
The Ordnance Survey map shows all the hiking trails in the area.
Often appears as...
- ordnance survey map
- ordnance survey office
Usage tips
Technical
noun
Large weapons like cannons and bombs.
The military base is equipped with heavy ordnance.
Often appears as...
- heavy ordnance
- naval ordnance
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The department of a government or military that supplies weapons.
He worked in the Ordnance Department of the British Army.
Often appears as...
- ordnance department
- ordnance corps
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A short term for Ordnance Survey, the national map-making body of the UK.
The Ordnance Survey map shows all the hiking trails in the area.
Often appears as...
- ordnance survey map
- ordnance survey office
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Military Context
Use 'ordnance' when discussing military equipment, especially during war or in training contexts.
The soldiers trained with live ordnance to prepare for deployment.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Handheld
'Ordnance' usually refers to large-caliber guns, not small firearms or handheld weapons.
They loaded the ordnance onto the battleship before setting sail.
Pro Tip 3/3Danger Implied
The word carries a sense of danger as it is associated with heavy weapons and explosives.
The area was evacuated due to unexploded ordnance.
Pro Tip 1/3Military Context
Use 'ordnance' when discussing military equipment, especially during war or in training contexts.
The soldiers trained with live ordnance to prepare for deployment.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Handheld
'Ordnance' usually refers to large-caliber guns, not small firearms or handheld weapons.
They loaded the ordnance onto the battleship before setting sail.
Pro Tip 3/3Danger Implied
The word carries a sense of danger as it is associated with heavy weapons and explosives.
The area was evacuated due to unexploded ordnance.
Pro Tip 1/3Military Context
Use 'ordnance' when discussing military equipment, especially during war or in training contexts.
The soldiers trained with live ordnance to prepare for deployment.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Handheld
'Ordnance' usually refers to large-caliber guns, not small firearms or handheld weapons.
They loaded the ordnance onto the battleship before setting sail.
Pro Tip 3/3Danger Implied
The word carries a sense of danger as it is associated with heavy weapons and explosives.
The area was evacuated due to unexploded ordnance.
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Video examples
Safari Live - Day 333 PIPE...
point in their life will be laughing away for example Koki here does not do a lot a lot of laughing because laughing is something that indicates nervousness or sub ordnance almost and you'll find that very nervous hyenas or the hyenas are very low ranking when they approach
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A reality check on...
which don't involve fossil fuels so there's nuclear power and on this Ordnance Survey map you can see there's a size well be inside a blue square kilometer that's one gigawatt in a square kilometer which works out to a thousand watts per square meter
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 333 PIPE...
point in their life will be laughing away for example Koki here does not do a lot a lot of laughing because laughing is something that indicates nervousness or sub ordnance almost and you'll find that very nervous hyenas or the hyenas are very low ranking when they approach
Video examples
A reality check on...
which don't involve fossil fuels so there's nuclear power and on this Ordnance Survey map you can see there's a size well be inside a blue square kilometer that's one gigawatt in a square kilometer which works out to a thousand watts per square meter
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
Noam Chomsky
American Activist
There are still thousands of people dying every year in Laos, mostly children and farmers, from unexploded anti-personnel ordnance that the U.S. simply saturated much of the land with, especially in the Plain of Jars. There actually is a British engineering team trying to remove some of these things, which are much worse than land mines.
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Nirmala Sitharaman
Indian Politician
Major reforms include optimisation of the Signals establishments, restructuring of repair echelons, redeployment of ordnance echelons, better utilisation of supply and transport echelons, besides closure of military farms, and Army postal establishments in peace locations.
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Kay Kay Menon
Indian Actor
I was born in Kerala, where my maternal grandparents lived, and stayed there till the age of one, after which I came to Maharashtra to live with my parents and moved all around the state with my father, who worked as a superintendent in an ordnance factory.
Quote examples
Noam Chomsky
American Activist
There are still thousands of people dying every year in Laos, mostly children and farmers, from unexploded anti-personnel ordnance that the U.S. simply saturated much of the land with, especially in the Plain of Jars. There actually is a British engineering team trying to remove some of these things, which are much worse than land mines.
Quote examples
Nirmala Sitharaman
Indian Politician
Major reforms include optimisation of the Signals establishments, restructuring of repair echelons, redeployment of ordnance echelons, better utilisation of supply and transport echelons, besides closure of military farms, and Army postal establishments in peace locations.
Quote examples
Kay Kay Menon
Indian Actor
I was born in Kerala, where my maternal grandparents lived, and stayed there till the age of one, after which I came to Maharashtra to live with my parents and moved all around the state with my father, who worked as a superintendent in an ordnance factory.
Example 1 of 3
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