Munition vs Missile - What's the difference?
munition | missile |
(usually plural) Armament, weaponry.
* 1918 , Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation
(military, NATO) Bombs, rockets, missiles.
(rare, obsolete) A tower or fortification.
* 1610 , Douay-Rheims Bible, Habacuc 2:1
An object intended to be launched into the air at a target.
(military) A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after having been launched.
As nouns the difference between munition and missile
is that munition is armament, weaponry while missile is an object intended to be launched into the air at a target.munition
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(en noun)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.
- 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.
missile
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(wikipedia missile)Noun
(en noun)- That missile is explosive enough to kill hundreds.