artillery
Large projectile weapons, in modern usage usually large guns, but also rocket artillery.
Other meanings
An army unit that uses such weapons, or a military formation using projectile weapons, such as archers.
Gunnery design and manufacture of guns.
A kind of
- armament
Kinds of artillery
- cannon
- field artillery
Related words
- artillery tube
- antiartillery
- artillerist
- artilleryman
- artillerywoman
- counterartillery
- nonartillery
- artillery fungus
- artillery mold
- artillery wheel
- nuclear artillery
- rocket artillery
Word history
From Latin "aptō" (to make capable).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “artillery” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.