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Armament vs Munition - What's the difference?

armament | munition |

As nouns the difference between armament and munition

is that armament is a body of forces equipped for war while munition is armament, weaponry.

armament

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • munition

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually plural) Armament, weaponry.
  • * 1918 , Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation Book 7.:
    • Just as we can say that an English girl who leaves the narrow circle of her old life, and goes into a munition factory and joins a union and takes part in its debates, will never after be a docile home-slave; so we can say that the clergyman who helps in Y. M. C. A. work in France, or in Red Cross organization in America, will be less the bigot and formalist forever after.
  • (military, NATO) Bombs, rockets, missiles.
  • (rare, obsolete) A tower or fortification.
  • * 1610 , Douay-Rheims Bible, Habacuc 2:1
    • I wil stand vpon my watch, and fixe my steppe vpon the munition : and I wil behold, to see what may be sayd to me, and what I may answer to him that rebuketh me.