- 1軍火；軍需品
Weapons, ammunition (bullets, bombs, shells), and military supplies used by an army, especially heavy equipment like guns and explosives. It's a fairly formal or technical word, mostly seen in military and news contexts, like 'unexploded ordnance' meaning old bombs that never went off.
From the word’s history
Reduced form of ordinance, which from the late 14th century meant 'military equipment or provisions'.
是 ordinance 的縮短形式；ordinance 曾指「軍需裝備」。
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ordnancenoun/ˈɔːdnəns/
- 1
Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.
- When the Turkes tooke Conſtantinople, they melted the Bells into Ordnance; I haue heard both Bells and Ordnance, but neuer been ſo much affected with thoſe, as with theſe Bells.
- What Mr. Vance’s trip made clear is that both sides think they emerged as the victor of the first round: the United States by dropping so much ordnance on Iran, the Iranians by surviving. Neither seems in the mood for compromise.
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Artillery.
- Let all the Battlements their Ordinance fire, / The King shal drinke to Hamlets better breath,
- From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.
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