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weaponry
This term refers to a collective body of arms or the technical field of their creation. It carries a clinical, systemic connotation, focusing on the scale of an arsenal or the industrial process of production rather than individual tools of combat.
Grammatically, this is a mass noun. It is always uncountable and cannot be pluralized as weaponries. To refer to a single item, one must use the word weapon or a partitive construction such as a piece of weaponry.
Meanings
The weapons of a particular type, group, or nation, considered collectively.
The country has invested heavily in advanced naval weaponry.
Examples
They have old weaponry.
This is heavy weaponry.
He studies ancient weaponry.
The museum displayed medieval weaponry.
They updated their defensive weaponry.
The army stored its weaponry here.
The empire relied on superior weaponry to conquer.
The dragon guarded a hoard of magical weaponry.
Detectives found illegal weaponry in the basement.
The treaty mandates a reduction in nuclear weaponry.
Technological leaps redefined the nature of modern weaponry.
The archives detail the evolution of siege weaponry.