Ammunition vs Armament - What's the difference?
ammunition | armament |
(senseid)Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.
(obsolete) Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense.
Any stock of missiles or supplies for a conflict, literal or figurative.
A body of forces equipped for war.
(military, naval) All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.
Any equipment for resistance.
The process of building up military capacity.
As nouns the difference between ammunition and armament
is that ammunition is (articles used in charging firearms)Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc while armament is a body of forces equipped for war.ammunition
English
Noun
- ammunition''' bread; '''ammunition shoes
- Her bad behaviour is giving him ammunition''' for a divorce / '''ammunition for the next electoral debate.