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Equipment

The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.

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Apparatus 76% connected

of Apparatus

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Appurtenance 76% connected

That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and…

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Equipage 76% connected

Furniture or outfit, whether useful or ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel, fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purpos…

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Gear 76% connected

Clothing; garments; ornaments.

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Material 76% connected

Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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Materiel 76% connected

That in a complex system which constitutes the materials, or instruments employed, in distinction from the personnel, or men; as, the baggage, muniti…

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Paraphernalia 76% connected

Something reserved to a wife, over and above her dower, being chiefly apparel and ornaments suited to her degree.

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Recorder 76% connected

One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.

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Satellite 76% connected

An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent.

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Technology 76% connected

Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving,…

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Instrumentality 76% connected

The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency.

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Instrumentation 76% connected

The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency.

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Equip 74% connected

To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide wi…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Equip 74% connected

To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide wi…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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