armamentarium

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UK/ˌɑːməmənˈtɛəɹi.əm/UK/ˌɑːməˌmɛnˈ-/US/ˌɑɹməmənˈtɛɹi.əm/US/ˌɑɹməˌmɛnˈ-/

noun

All of the equipment available for carrying out a task, especially all the equipment used by a physician in the practice of medicine.

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Meanings

nounarmamentarium (plural armamentariums or armamentaria)

plural armamentariums · plural armamentaria

  1. All of the equipment available for carrying out a task, especially all the equipment used by a physician in the practice of medicine.

    The most important tool in the photographer's armamentarium for evaluating the range of possibilities at each site is his or her feet.

    2021, Peter Cavanagh, “9. Cranes”, in 100 Flying Birds: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight, →ISBN, page 218
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    Pendants round the neck, bangles round the wrists or ankles, potatoes or nutmegs in the pocket are as old or older than civilisation, carrying the same prophylactic magic as any juju in an African witchdoctor’s armamentarium.

    1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 763

    Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS) technology has enriched the armamentarium of regenerative medicine by introducing autologous pluripotent progenitor pools bioengineered from ordinary somatic tissue.

    2010, Timothy J. Nelson et al., "Induced pluripotent stem cells: advances to applications," Stem Cells and Cloning: Advances and Applications, Dove Press, no. 3, p. 29

    Ever more new drugs appeared on the market, bewildering and swamping clinicians who had been accustomed in their pharmaceutical armamentarium to a handful of painkillers, alkaloids with physiological effects, and vaccines.

    2013, Edward [L.] Shorter, “Medicine”, in Partnership for Excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals, Toronto, Ont.; Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 210

Origin

  1. Latinarmāmentārium“arsenal”
  2. Englisharmamentarium

From Latin armāmentārium (“arsenal”), from armāmenta (“tools, equipment, rigging”) + -ārium. By surface analysis, armament + -arium.

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Translations

Portuguese armamentário
  • armamentárioall of the equipment available for carrying out a task
Russian инструмента́рий
  • инструмента́рий (instrumentárij)all of the equipment available for carrying out a task

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APA

armamentarium. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/armamentarium

MLA

“armamentarium.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/armamentarium. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “armamentarium,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/armamentarium.

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