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   ar·til·ler·y

   /ärˈtil(ə)rē/

   noun

   • 1. large-caliber guns used in warfare on land: "tanks and heavy artillery"
   • ▪ a military detachment or branch of the armed forces that uses large-caliber guns: "each corps included two regiments of field artillery"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French artillerie, from artiller, alteration of atillier ‘equip, arm’, probably a variant of atirier, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to, at’) + tire ‘rank, order’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. artillerist noun

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