Definitions for: Equipment


[n] an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service



Webster (1913) Definition: E*quip"ment, n. [Cf. F. ['e]quipement. See Equip.]
1. The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as
for a voyage or expedition. --Burke.

The equipment of the fleet was hastened by De Witt.
--Hume.

2. 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 equipments; infantry equipments; naval
equipments; laboratory equipments.

Armed and dight, In the equipments of a knight.
--Longfellow.

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