Get to know Ordnance better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like armament or munition.
Ordnance meaning
- Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.
- Artillery.
Using Ordnance
- The main meaning on this page is: Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition. | Artillery.
- Useful related words include: armament, munition, ordnance store, artillery.
- In the example corpus, ordnance often appears in combinations such as: explosive ordnance, ordnance disposal, the ordnance.
Context around Ordnance
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ordnance
- In this selection, "ordnance" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, explosive, unexploded, people, disposal, terrace and survey stand out and add context to how "ordnance" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a 1950s ordnance survey trace and a possible ordnance or debris. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ordnance" sits close to words such as adrift, agm and argyll, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ordnance
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It has not yet been confirmed whether the item is a possible ordnance or debris. (15 words)
APG’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal of Army personnel went in with Goodwin to defuse any unexploded ordnance. (17 words)
The Army Chief later inaugurated the newly constructed headquarters Central Ordnance Depot Administrative office complex at the cantonment. (18 words)
Removing mines and other unexploded ordnance, which cover 26% of Ukraine’s land according to the government, will likely take decades, said Michael Tirre, Europe program manager for the U.S. State Department’s Office of Weapons Removal. (38 words)
As the inaugural sponsors for the program, General Dynamics’ three business units in Canada Land Systems–Canada, Mission Systems–Canada, and Ordnance and Tactical Systems–Canada are proud to support Indigenous businesses across the country. (35 words)
During and following the construction of the Canal, workers essentially squatted on the ordnance land bordering the waterway, but this practice was brought into order when registered plans for subdividing the land came into effect. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
The explosive ordnance disposal team determined the ordnance was an M7A1 Bazooka training round, an inert training device used during World War II.
Event 2 was an ordnance identification lane, which required teams to identify different types and parts of ordnance they found, determine the origin of those devices and how the devices were employed.
APG’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal of Army personnel went in with Goodwin to defuse any unexploded ordnance.
Notable people Ordnance Terrace in October 2007 Charles Dickens lived in the town as a boy, both in 'The Brook, Chatham' and in Ordnance Terrace before Chatham railway station was built just opposite.
According to the US Airforce, the precision-guided GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is substantially larger than the deepest-penetrating bunker busters ever made.
A Furness Coastguard spokesman said: "Furness Coastguard were called out yesterday lunchtime to assist the army in a search for a reported item of ordnance.
As the inaugural sponsors for the program, General Dynamics’ three business units in Canada Land Systems–Canada, Mission Systems–Canada, and Ordnance and Tactical Systems–Canada are proud to support Indigenous businesses across the country.
As yet, there has been no official confirmation from police as to exactly what was found although they have described it as "unexploded ordnance".
Can the Director of Ordnance account for how many of them are estimated not to be in safe custody.
During and following the construction of the Canal, workers essentially squatted on the ordnance land bordering the waterway, but this practice was brought into order when registered plans for subdividing the land came into effect.
During military training courses armed services are taught techniques on explosive ordnance disposal by recreating realistic scenarios involving live ammunition.
In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, S.C., Feb. 5, 2023.
It has not yet been confirmed whether the item is a possible ordnance or debris.
It is near to Water Breaks Its Neck – a waterfall and trail popular with walkers – as well as the Radnor Range, an MOD site for testing weapons, ordnance, munitions and explosives.
It is understood that the original property dates back to the 17th Century, featuring on 1835 Ordnance Survey map, and named after an old ring fort which lay close to the property.
Lahaina had a large number of lithium ion solar-powered energy storage batteries, which the agency will treat as though they are unexploded ordnance, said Steve Calanog, the EPA's incident commander.
Navy Seaman Scott Nettrour, a 2017 North Allegheny High School graduate, is assigned to the Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal.
Part of that site overlapped an area marked on a 1950s Ordnance Survey trace map as a ‘Children's Burial Ground’.
Removing mines and other unexploded ordnance, which cover 26% of Ukraine’s land according to the government, will likely take decades, said Michael Tirre, Europe program manager for the U.S. State Department’s Office of Weapons Removal.
The Army Chief later inaugurated the newly constructed headquarters Central Ordnance Depot Administrative office complex at the cantonment.
Common combinations with ordnance
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- explosive ordnance 31×
- ordnance disposal 27×
- the ordnance 21×
- ordnance survey 21×
- unexploded ordnance 18×
- of ordnance 11×
- and ordnance 5×
- ordnance the 5×
- ordnance factory 5×
- on ordnance 4×