Equipment \E*quip"ment\, n. [Cf. F. ['e]quipement. See Equip.]

1. The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition. --Burke.

The equipment of the fleet was hastened by De Witt. --Hume.

2. Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc.; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments.

Armed and dight, In the equipments of a knight. --Longfellow.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)