1. large-calibre guns used in warfare on land: "tanks and heavy artillery"
▪ a military detachment or branch of the armed forces that uses large-calibre guns:"each corps included two regiments of field artillery"
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French artillerie, from artiller, alteration of atillier ‘equip, arm’, probably a variant of atirier, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to, at’) + tire ‘rank, order’.