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Ordnance vs Weaponry - What's the difference?

ordnance | weaponry | Related terms |

As nouns the difference between ordnance and weaponry

is that ordnance is military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition while weaponry is weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry.

ordnance

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.
  • artillery.

    • Usage notes

    The British , now a civilian agency, retains its name from its origin as a military topographic survey of Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. This word is often confused with ordinance, which is a law or legal statute.

    Related terms

    * unexploded ordnance

    weaponry

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}

    Related terms

    * conventional weaponry