Front | armament |
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Pron | ['ɑːrməmənt] |
Back | 【armament】 n. 兵力;军势 A large percentage of the budget is for armaments. 预算的一大部分是为国防。 |
Vocab | armamentweaponry used by military or naval force
Use the noun armament to talk about the kind of weapons that armies use when they wage wars. A tank, for example, is an armament. The word armament is good for describing heavy duty weaponry and the equipment that's associated with it, like bombs, fighter jets, tanks, and assault rifles. It's even more common to use the plural form, armaments. In the seventeenth century, the word was mainly used to mean "naval force equipped for war," and it comes from the Latin root armare, "to arm, or to furnish with weapons." All forms of 'armament' will appear on average once every 1328 pages. arm armament armed armful arming armless armlet armlike armor arms disarm forearm overarm re-arm rearm unarm underarm armored armorer unarmored disarmament disarmer disarming rearmament unarmed |
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