(n.) That in a complex system which constitutes the materials or instruments employed, in distinction from the personnel or men; as, the baggage, munitions, provisions, etc., of an army; or the buildings, libraries, and apparatus of a college, in distinction from its officers.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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