equipment Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service

WordNet

E*quip"ment noun
Etymology
Cf. F. équipement. See Equip.
Definitions
  1. The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition. Burke.
    The equipment of the fleet was hastened by De Witt. Hume.
  2. Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments.
    Armed and dight, In the equipments of a knight. Longfellow.

Webster 1913