Ordnance may refer to:
Military and defense
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Materiel
Materiel or matériel (; ) is supplies, equipment, and weapons in military supply-chain management, and typically supplies and equipment in a commerce, commercial supply chain management, supply chain context.
Military
In a military context, ...
in military logistics, including weapons, ammunition, vehicles, and maintenance tools and equipment
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Artillery
Artillery consists of ranged weapons that launch Ammunition, munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms. Early artillery development focused on the ability to breach defensive walls and fortifications during sieges, and l ...
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shells
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Aircraft ordnance
Aircraft ordnance or ordnance (in the context of military aviation) is any expendable weaponry (e.g. aerial bomb, bombs, guided missile, missiles, rocket (weapon), rockets and gun ammunition) used by military aircraft. The term is often used whe ...
, weapons carried by and used by an aircraft
Places
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Ordnance, Oregon
Ordnance is a ghost town in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States, southwest of Hermiston on Interstate 84/ U.S. Route 30, near the intersection with Interstate 82. In 1941, the United States Department of War
The United States Department ...
, United States
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Ordnance Island
Ordnance Island is located within the limits of St. George's, Bermuda, St. George's Town, Bermuda. It lies close to the shore opposite the town square (King's Square), in St. George's Harbour, Bermuda, St. George's Harbour.
History
The only ...
, Bermuda
Maps-related
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Ordnance datum
An ordnance datum (OD) is a vertical datum used by an ordnance survey as the basis for deriving altitudes on maps. A spot height may be expressed as above ordnance datum (AOD). Usually mean sea level (MSL) at a particular place is used for the d ...
(from use in ballistics), a vertical datum used as the basis for deriving altitudes on maps
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Ordnance Survey
The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see Artillery, ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of ...
, the national mapping agency for Great Britain
See also
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Ordnance Corps (disambiguation)
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