EQUIPMENTS

Noun

equipments

(nonstandard) plural of equipment

Usage notes

The plural is used in the sense of individual items of equipment in historic military usage and occasionally in modern documents, especially in some catalogues of equipment.

Source: Wiktionary


EQUIPMENT

E*quip"ment, n. Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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