- [countable, usually plural]
weapons, especially large guns, bombs, tanks, etc. 军备；武器 the armaments industry 军火工业
- [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’.