matériel

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The assemblage or totality of things used or needed in carrying on any complex business or operation, in distinction from the personnel, or body of persons, employed in the same: applied more especially to military supplies and equipments, as arms, ammunition, baggage, provisions, horses, wagons, etc.

Wiktionary

1. n. variant spelling of materiel

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. That in a complex system which constitutes the materials, or instruments employed, in distinction from the personnel, or men; , of an army; or the buildings, libraries, and apparatus of a college, in distinction from its officers.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. equipment and supplies of a military force