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# defense

noun

«defense» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

126 uses in 63 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as a noun in 126 of 126. By the class of the article: country 14, city 11, agglomeration 10, institute 9. Most often with: «military», «contractor», «company», «industry», «force».

### Examples

- The new company will provide comprehensive cooperation with Japanese industry and aims to strengthen relations with the Japanese Ministry of Defense and the Japan Self-Defense Forces. — [BAE Systems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems), sentence 215 («wiki:BAE\_Systems:215»)
- Various technology spin-offs include products developed for industrial, medical, transportation, security, aero-space and defense applications. — [Bhabha Atomic Research Centre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhabha_Atomic_Research_Centre), sentence 163 («wiki:Bhabha\_Atomic\_Research\_Centre:163»)
- The Song's consistent focus on defense resulted in a heavily centralized state and military, which made the first military application of gunpowder. — [China](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China), sentence 74 («wiki:China:74»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«BAE Systems»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Bhabha Atomic Research Centre»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhabha_Atomic_Research_Centre), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«China»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.