Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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 : WordNet®

equipment
     n : an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a
         service