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armament

noun
🔊/ˈɑːməmənt/
🔊/ˈɑːrməmənt/
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  1. [countable, usually plural] weapons, especially large guns, bombs, tanks, etc.军备；武器
    • the armaments industry军火工业
    Topics War and conflictc2
  2. [uncountable] the process of increasing the amount of weapons an army or a country has, especially to prepare for war武装；战备
    3. compare disarmament
    Word Originlate 17th cent. (in the sense ‘force equipped for war’): from Latin armamentum, from armare ‘to arm’, from arma ‘armour, arms’.