Ordnance
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Ordnance may refer to:
Military and defense
- Materiel in military logistics, including weapons, ammunition, vehicles, and maintenance tools and equipment.
- The military branch responsible for supplying and developing these items, e.g., the United States Army Ordnance Corps
- Artillery, often in a formal name, e.g., "Ordnance Survey".
- Artillery shells, specifically unexploded ordnance.
- Aircraft ordnance, weapons carried by and used by an aircraft.
Places
- Ordnance, Oregon, a former community near the Umatilla Chemical Depot
- Ordnance Island, formerly a Royal Army Ordnance Corps depot, in St. George's Town, Bermuda
- Ordnance datum (from use in ballistics), a vertical datum used as the basis for deriving altitudes on maps
- Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency for Great Britain