Equipment

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  • noun. The act of equipping or the state of being equipped.
  • noun. Something with which a person, organization, or thing is equipped.
  • noun. The rolling stock especially of a transportation system.
  • noun. The mental and emotional resources of an individual.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of equipping or fitting out, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or an expedition.
  • noun. Anything that is used in or provided for equipping, as furniture, habiliments, warlike apparatus, necessaries for an expedition or for a voyage, or the knowledge and skill necessary for a vocation: as, the equipments of a hotel, a ship, or a railroad; the equipment of a man for the ministry, or for the law.
  • noun. Specifically pl. Milit., certain of the necessaries for officers and soldiers, as horses, horse-appointments, and accoutrements; the clothes, arms, etc., of a soldier, or certain furnishings for artillery.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
  • noun. Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
  • noun. Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc.; for carrying on business); horse equipment; infantry equipment; naval equipment; laboratory equipment.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service
  • Word Usage
    "_ A part of the equipment that is not individual to the lines or to the cord circuits, but which may, as occasion requires, be associated with any of them is called the _operator's equipment_."
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