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Ordnance may refer to:

Ordnance, the design, testing, manufacture, arming, controlling, maintenance and disposal of weapons and munitions.
Bureau of Ordnance, the U.S. Navy's organization responsible for the procurement, storage, and deployment of all naval ordnance
Explosive Ordnance Disposal Badge, a military badge of the United States Armed Forces
Naval Ordnance Laboratory, a former United States military research laboratory
Ordnance Corps (United States Army), a combat service support branch of the United States Army
Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC), a former corps of the British Army
Royal Ordnance, a British public corporation that manufactured explosives, ammunition, and small arms
Royal Ordnance Factory, the collective name of the UK government's munitions factories in and after World War II
United States Army Ordnance Museum, a museum at Aberdeen Proving Ground, in Aberdeen, Maryland
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Ordnance disposal, the process by which hazardous devices are rendered safe
Para-Ordnance, a firearms manufacturer in Toronto, Canada
Unexploded ordnance, are explosive munitions that did not explode when they were used, and still pose a risk of detonation

Ordnance Datum, a vertical datum used by an ordnance survey as the basis for deriving altitudes on maps
Ordnance Survey, a British government organization that makes and sells maps
Ordnance Survey Ireland, the mapping agency in the Republic of Ireland

Ordnance Island, Bermuda, an island, formerly a Royal Army Ordnance Corps depot, within the limits of St. George's town, Bermuda
USN Submarine Base, Ordnance Island, Bermuda, a U.S. Navy base during the Second World War
Ordnance, Oregon, a former community near the Umatilla Chemical Depot