a place of storage or a magazine containing arms and military equipment for land or naval service.
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a government establishment where military equipment or munitions are manufactured.
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a collection or supply of weapons or munitions.
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a collection or supply of anything; store: He came to the meeting with an impressive arsenal of new research data.
[Origin: 1500–10; (< MF) < It arzanale < Upper Italian (Venetian) arzanà dockyard < Ar dār ṣināʿah workshop (lit., house of handwork); initial d prob. taken as a form of the prep. di from]
A governmental establishment for the storing, development, manufacturing, testing, or repairing of arms, ammunition, and other war materiel.
A stock of weapons.
A store or supply: an arsenal of retorts.
[Italian arsenale, from obsolete arzanale, darsena, from Arabic aṣ ṣinā'a, manufacture, industry, and dār-aṣ-ṣinā'a, place of manufacture : dār, house (from dāra, to turn, revolve; see dwr in Semitic roots) + al-, the + ṣinā'a, manufacture (from ṣana'a, to make; see ṣnʕ in Semitic roots).]
1506, "dockyard," from It. arzenale, from Ar. dar as-sina'ah "house of manufacture, workshop," from sina'ah "art, craft, skill," from sana'a "he made." Applied by the Venetians to a large wharf in their city, which was the earliest meaning in Eng. Sense of "public place for making or storing weapons and ammunition" is from 1579.
Redstone Arsenal, AL (CDP, FIPS 63912) Location: 34.68407 N, 86.65404 W Population (1990): 4909 (1154 housing units) Area: 20.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Ar"se*nal\, n. [Sp. & F. arsenal arsenal, dockyard, or It. arzanale, arsenale (cf. It. & darsena dock); all fr. Ar. d[=a]r?in[=a]'a house of industry or fabrication; d[=a]r house + ?in[=a] art, industry.] A public establishment for the storage, or for the manufacture and storage, of arms and all military equipments, whether for land or naval service.
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