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词汇 munition
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Definition of munition in English:

munition

plural noun mjʊˈnɪʃ(ə)n
munitions
  • Military weapons, ammunition, equipment, and stores.

    军火(包括弹药,装备及库藏)

    reserves of nuclear, chemical, and conventional munitions

    核、化学和常规武器的储备。

    munition factories

    军火工厂。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This base will also serve as administrative headquarters and contain warehouses to store munitions.
    • We are testing an MLRS rocket in which we have replaced the rocket's individual submunitions with a single explosive munition and have matched it with a guidance system.
    • In their civilian jobs, they work for a contractor clearing weapons ranges of unexploded munitions.
    • Using metal scrap and the steel swarf turned out from munition factories, blending in nickel, vanadium and manganese they created the high-speed tool steels that the arms factories were crying out for.
    • The convoys were carrying arms, munitions and other equipment vital for the Russian Red Army, in their battle against the Nazis.
    • Yet there is a danger that the use of cluster bombs and depleted uranium munitions will puncture all his talk of humanitarian action.
    • The Japanese navy maximized these characteristics by developing thin-skinned shells, allowing a far greater percentage of the munition's weight to be made of explosives, which produced a much greater bursting effect.
    • The Selectable Lightweight Attack Munition is an Army war reserve modernization munition designed to defeat vehicles and light armored targets.
    • As far as business is concerned, a munitions order from the government is much like an order from a private customer.
    • Weapons, munitions and other equipment were all produced to support naval operations.
    • Such systems require specialized support equipment and munitions uncommon in the Air Force.
    • If not handled properly, these munitions can kill Air Force personnel and destroy equipment.
    • About 28 percent of the United States Air Forces in Europe's munitions are stored at the site.
    • The main line of its improvement should be a rational integration of munition factories and a reduction in their total number through conversion and restructuring.
    • From 1914, he applied them to the war effort, helping to clear production bottlenecks in munition factories.
    • And he took some munitions workers, some women who worked in munition plants in the United States.
    • Dual-purpose, improved conventional munitions were the munition of choice for killing tanks and personnel in the open.
    • Increased Irish emigration to Britain during the 1940s supplied navvies, nurses, clerks, policemen and munition workers.
    • At roughly the same time, military orders for depleted uranium munitions stopped too.
    • Therefore, it should be possible to develop a similar precision munition for rocket artillery.
    Synonyms
    bullets, shells, projectiles, missiles, rounds, shot, slugs, cartridges, rockets, bombs, stores
verb mjʊˈnɪʃ(ə)n
[with object]
  • Supply with munitions.

    供给军火

    it never had the defence industry necessary to equip or munition its forces

Derivatives

  • munitioner

  • noun mjʊˈnɪʃənə
    rare
    • A person who supplies the military with weapons, ammunition, equipment, and stores.

      军火(包括弹药,装备及库藏)

      he has formed a body of six munitioners
      Mrs. Pankhurst said that the women munitioners should have equal pay with men.

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting a granted right or privilege): from French, from Latin munitio(n-) 'fortification', from munire 'fortify or secure'.

Rhymes

academician, addition, aesthetician (US esthetician), ambition, audition, beautician, clinician, coition, cosmetician, diagnostician, dialectician, dietitian, Domitian, edition, electrician, emission, fission, fruition, Hermitian, ignition, linguistician, logician, magician, mathematician, Mauritian, mechanician, metaphysician, mission, monition, mortician, musician, obstetrician, omission, optician, paediatrician (US pediatrician), patrician, petition, Phoenician, physician, politician, position, rhetorician, sedition, statistician, suspicion, tactician, technician, theoretician, Titian, tuition, volition

Definition of munition in US English:

munition

plural noun
munitions
  • Military weapons, ammunition, equipment, and stores.

    军火(包括弹药,装备及库藏)

    reserves of nuclear, chemical, and conventional munitions

    核、化学和常规武器的储备。

    munition factories

    军火工厂。

    as modifier a munitions expert
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Increased Irish emigration to Britain during the 1940s supplied navvies, nurses, clerks, policemen and munition workers.
    • Such systems require specialized support equipment and munitions uncommon in the Air Force.
    • If not handled properly, these munitions can kill Air Force personnel and destroy equipment.
    • Therefore, it should be possible to develop a similar precision munition for rocket artillery.
    • The main line of its improvement should be a rational integration of munition factories and a reduction in their total number through conversion and restructuring.
    • We are testing an MLRS rocket in which we have replaced the rocket's individual submunitions with a single explosive munition and have matched it with a guidance system.
    • As far as business is concerned, a munitions order from the government is much like an order from a private customer.
    • The convoys were carrying arms, munitions and other equipment vital for the Russian Red Army, in their battle against the Nazis.
    • Dual-purpose, improved conventional munitions were the munition of choice for killing tanks and personnel in the open.
    • Yet there is a danger that the use of cluster bombs and depleted uranium munitions will puncture all his talk of humanitarian action.
    • The Selectable Lightweight Attack Munition is an Army war reserve modernization munition designed to defeat vehicles and light armored targets.
    • This base will also serve as administrative headquarters and contain warehouses to store munitions.
    • From 1914, he applied them to the war effort, helping to clear production bottlenecks in munition factories.
    • The Japanese navy maximized these characteristics by developing thin-skinned shells, allowing a far greater percentage of the munition's weight to be made of explosives, which produced a much greater bursting effect.
    • And he took some munitions workers, some women who worked in munition plants in the United States.
    • Weapons, munitions and other equipment were all produced to support naval operations.
    • At roughly the same time, military orders for depleted uranium munitions stopped too.
    • About 28 percent of the United States Air Forces in Europe's munitions are stored at the site.
    • In their civilian jobs, they work for a contractor clearing weapons ranges of unexploded munitions.
    • Using metal scrap and the steel swarf turned out from munition factories, blending in nickel, vanadium and manganese they created the high-speed tool steels that the arms factories were crying out for.
    Synonyms
    bullets, shells, projectiles, missiles, rounds, shot, slugs, cartridges, rockets, bombs, stores
verb
[with object]
  • Supply with munitions.

    供给军火

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting a granted right or privilege): from French, from Latin munitio(n-) ‘fortification’, from munire ‘fortify or secure’.

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