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ordnance

/awrd-nuhns/US // ˈɔrd nəns //UK // (ˈɔːdnəns) //

军械,军火,弹药,炮弹

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : cannon or artillery.
    • : military weapons with their equipment, ammunition, etc.
    • : the branch of an army that procures, stores, and issues, weapons, munitions, and combat vehicles and maintains arsenals for their development and testing.

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Examples

  • Matthew Clark, the Executive Director of the conservative Alabama Center for Law and Liberty sent a letter on behalf of his group and six allied organizations asking the Council to abandon a vote implementing the ordnance.

  • For those working on explosive ordnance disposal team, the ability to roll a tracked machine into place, and then use a robotic claw to manipulate a suspected bomb or improvised explosive device, is key.

  • We say in the military, “when you release ordnance and people die, everything changes.”

  • This inspired the “270 Million Project,” some of whose proceeds will go toward removing unexploded ordnance .

  • “Lack of forward firing ordnance in a CAS supporting aircraft is a major handicap,” he added.

  • It could have closed off the school until another international organization with ordnance disposal skills secured the area.

  • The American ordnance crew that had explored it estimated the mine contained 400,000 tons of explosives.

  • Baker was an explosive ordnance disposal expert and had saved many lives by defusing many IEDs during two tours in Afghanistan.

  • And nobody needs a 30-round clip of high-velocity, steel-jacketed, armor-piercing ordnance for target shooting.

  • It contains complete arms for 40,000 men, and there is also a quantity of heavy ordnance.

  • Colonel Fox, member for Stroud, accepted the Chiltern hundreds in his favour, and became secretary to the ordnance.

  • During the next four days the enemy replied by a terrific bombardment from their heavy ordnance and gunboats.

  • Richmond again became master of the ordnance and a little later re-entered the cabinet.

  • It was, it struck me, from a petronel, or some small piece of ordnance such as merchantmen carried in those days.