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==Origin==
Denoting a dock for the construction and repair of ships: from French, or from obsolete Italian ''arzanale'', based on Arabic ''dār-aṣ-ṣinā῾a'', from dār ‘house’ + al- ‘(of) the’ + sinā῾a ‘[[art]], [[industry]]’ (from ṣana῾a ‘make, fabricate’) or a house of manufacture.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century early 16th Century]
==Definitions==
*1: a collection of [[weapons]] and [[military]] equipment stored by a country, person, or group:
*2: a place where weapons and military equipment are stored or made.
*3: an [[array]] of [[resources]] available for a certain [[purpose]]: ''an arsenal of computers at our disposal.''
==Description==
An '''arsenal''' is a place where [[Weapons|arms]] and ammunition are made, maintained and repaired, stored, or issued, in any combination, whether privately or publicly owned. Arsenal and armoury (British English) or armory (US spelling are mostly regarded as synonyms, although subtle [[differences]] in usage exist.
Sub-armory is a place of temporary storage or carrying of weapons and ammunition, like any temporary Post or patrol vehicle which is only operational in certain times of the day.
A lower-class arsenal, which can furnish the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materiel materiel] and equipment of a small army, may contain a [[laboratory]], gun and carriage factories, small-arms ammunition, small-arms, harness, saddlery tent and powder factories; in addition, it must possess great store-houses. In a second-class arsenal, the factories would be replaced by workshops. The situation of an arsenal should be governed by strategic [[considerations]]. If of the first class, it should be situated at the base of operations and supply, [[secure]] from [[attack]], not too near a [[frontier]], and placed so as to draw in readily the [[resources]] of the country. The importance of a large arsenal is such that its defenses would be on the scale of those of a large [[fortress]].
[[Category: General Reference]]
==Origin==
Denoting a dock for the construction and repair of ships: from French, or from obsolete Italian ''arzanale'', based on Arabic ''dār-aṣ-ṣinā῾a'', from dār ‘house’ + al- ‘(of) the’ + sinā῾a ‘[[art]], [[industry]]’ (from ṣana῾a ‘make, fabricate’) or a house of manufacture.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century early 16th Century]
==Definitions==
*1: a collection of [[weapons]] and [[military]] equipment stored by a country, person, or group:
*2: a place where weapons and military equipment are stored or made.
*3: an [[array]] of [[resources]] available for a certain [[purpose]]: ''an arsenal of computers at our disposal.''
==Description==
An '''arsenal''' is a place where [[Weapons|arms]] and ammunition are made, maintained and repaired, stored, or issued, in any combination, whether privately or publicly owned. Arsenal and armoury (British English) or armory (US spelling are mostly regarded as synonyms, although subtle [[differences]] in usage exist.
Sub-armory is a place of temporary storage or carrying of weapons and ammunition, like any temporary Post or patrol vehicle which is only operational in certain times of the day.
A lower-class arsenal, which can furnish the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materiel materiel] and equipment of a small army, may contain a [[laboratory]], gun and carriage factories, small-arms ammunition, small-arms, harness, saddlery tent and powder factories; in addition, it must possess great store-houses. In a second-class arsenal, the factories would be replaced by workshops. The situation of an arsenal should be governed by strategic [[considerations]]. If of the first class, it should be situated at the base of operations and supply, [[secure]] from [[attack]], not too near a [[frontier]], and placed so as to draw in readily the [[resources]] of the country. The importance of a large arsenal is such that its defenses would be on the scale of those of a large [[fortress]].
[[Category: General Reference]]
