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[[File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|thumb|Swords found together with the [[Nebra sky disk]]. Circa 1600 BC.]]A '''weapon''', arm, or armament is any [[machine]] used with intent to inflict damage or harm to living beings, structures, or systems. | [[File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|thumb|Swords found together with the [[Nebra sky disk]]. Circa 1600 BC.]]A '''weapon''', arm, or armament is any [[machine]] used with intent to inflict damage or harm to living beings, structures, or systems. | ||
Weapons are used to increase the efficacy and efficiency of activities such as crime, law enforcement, self-defense, and [[warfare]]. | Weapons are used to increase the efficacy and efficiency of activities such as crime, law enforcement, self-defense, and [[War (nonfiction)|warfare]]. | ||
In a broader context, weapons may be construed to include anything used to gain a strategic, material or mental advantage over an adversary. | In a broader context, weapons may be construed to include anything used to gain a strategic, material or mental advantage over an adversary. | ||
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File:Forbidden_Ratio_symbol.jpg|link=Forbidden Ratio|Supervillains [[Forbidden Ratio]] and [[Gnotilus]] threaten to [[Weaponization (nonfiction)|weaponize]] new class of [[Halting problem (nonfiction)|Halting problems]]. | File:Forbidden_Ratio_symbol.jpg|link=Forbidden Ratio|Supervillains [[Forbidden Ratio]] and [[Gnotilus]] threaten to [[Weaponization (nonfiction)|weaponize]] new class of [[Halting problem (nonfiction)|Halting problems]]. | ||
File:Companion of Asclepius Myrmidon.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|Wherever there are weapons, [[Asclepius Myrmidon|Asclepius Myrmidon and The Companion]] will be there to provide emergency medical assistance to the survivors. | File:Companion of Asclepius Myrmidon.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|Wherever there are weapons, [[Asclepius Myrmidon|Asclepius Myrmidon and The Companion]] will be there to provide emergency medical assistance to the survivors. | ||
File:Woman two girls ruins of a house.jpg|link=War (nonfiction)|[[War (nonfiction)|War]] victims. | |||
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Revision as of 10:10, 21 June 2016
A weapon, arm, or armament is any machine used with intent to inflict damage or harm to living beings, structures, or systems.
Weapons are used to increase the efficacy and efficiency of activities such as crime, law enforcement, self-defense, and warfare.
In a broader context, weapons may be construed to include anything used to gain a strategic, material or mental advantage over an adversary.
Weapons range in complexity from from simple implements such as clubs, swords and guns, and to complicated modern intercontinental ballistic missiles, biological and cyberweapons.
In the News
Law-abiding mathematical functions have nothing to fear from Crimes against mathematical constants, say crime authorities.
Soldiers training, not brandishing.
The Brandisher believes in brandishing for brandishing's sake.
Supervillains Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus threaten to weaponize new class of Halting problems.
Wherever there are weapons, Asclepius Myrmidon and The Companion will be there to provide emergency medical assistance to the survivors.
War victims.
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links:
- Weapon @ Wikipedia