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Webster 1913 Edition


Equipment

E-quip′ment

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
équipement
. 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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Equipment

EQUIP'MENT

,
Noun.
The act of equipping, or fitting for a voyage or expedition.
1.
Any thing that is used in equipping; furniture; habiliments; warlike apparatus; necessaries for an expedition, or for a voyage; as the equipments of a ship or an army.

Definition 2024


equipment

equipment

English

Noun

equipment (usually uncountable, plural equipments)

  1. The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
    • (Can we date this quote?) David Hume:
      The equipment of the fleet was hastened by De Witt.
  2. Whatever is used in equipping something or someone, for example things needed for an expedition or voyage
    • 11 July 2013, Jo Confino in The Guardian Online, How technology has stopped evolution and is destroying the world
      Tompkins is considered a hero in the deep ecology movement and works hand in hand with his wife Kris, the former CEO of the outdoor clothing and equipment company Patagonia.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Henry Longfellow:
      Armed and dight, In the equipment of a knight.

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