ar·ma·ment
noun/ˈɑːməmənt/
/ˈɑːrməmənt/
- [countable, usually plural] weapons, especially large guns, bombs, tanks, etc.
军备；武器 - the armaments industry
军火工业
- the armaments industry
- [uncountable] the process of increasing the amount of weapons an army or a country has, especially to prepare for war
武装；战备 compare disarmament
Word Originlate 17th cent. (in the sense ‘force equipped for war’): from Latin armamentum, from armare ‘to arm’, from arma ‘armour, arms’.