Usually means: Providing weapons for defense, attack.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. arming: Merriam-Webster
  2. arming: Collins English Dictionary
  3. arming: Vocabulary.com
  4. Arming, arming: Wordnik
  5. arming: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. arming: Wiktionary
  7. Arming, arming: Dictionary.com
  8. arming: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Arming: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. arming: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. arming: Rhymezone
  12. Arming: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. arming: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. arming: FreeDictionary.org
  15. arming: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. arming: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. arming: Legal dictionary
  2. arming: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. arming: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. arming: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. arming: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Arming: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)

(Note: See arm as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (arming)

noun:  The act of supplying (oneself or others) with armor and (now especially) arms and ammunition in preparation for a conflict; the act of providing with the means of defense and attack.
noun:  (in particular, especially in compounds) The affixing and securing on of armor.
noun:  The act of supplying with the equipment, knowledge, authority, or other tools needed for a particular task.
noun:  The act of preparing a tool or a weapon for action; activation.
noun:  (nautical) A piece of tallow or soap put in the cavity and over the bottom of a sounding lead to pick up samples of the bottom of the sea.
noun:  (nautical, chiefly in the plural) One of the red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays, or used as a visual screen during times of action.

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