Key Difference: Device and Equipment are somewhat similar to each other. A device is something made for a purpose, usually a tool, an instrument or equipment. Equipment is the tools or machines necessary for a particular kind of work or activity.

Dictionary.com defines ‘Device’ as:

• A thing made for a particular purpose; an invention or contrivance, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
• A plan or scheme for affecting a purpose.
• A crafty scheme; trick.
• A particular word pattern, figure of speech, combination of word sounds, etc., used in a literary work to evoke a desired effect or arouse a desired reaction in the reader: rhetorical devices.
• Something elaborately or fancifully designed.

Device is something made for an aim or a purpose, usually a tool or an instrument. It may refer to technology or music. There are thousands of devices. It is a most versatile word, used in the organization or company. It is used for doing exact work. It is work where result will be possible only with human effort.

Some examples of device are given below:

• You need to connect the device for the Internet connection.
• Is there a radio or another wireless device near the PC?
• Are you going to install a new device to improve the volume?
• A device for opening cans.

According to Dictionary.com ‘Equipment’ is:

• Anything kept, furnished, or provided for a specific purpose.
• The act of equipping a person or thing.
• The state of being equipped.
• The personal knowledge and skill required for a task, occupation, etc.: He has the necessary equipment for law.
• The rolling stock of a railroad.

The equipment is a necessary tool, clothing or a machine for a particular purpose. Equipment also contains guard that a person uses for one's own safety like gloves, helmet, goggles, etc., that someone needs while traveling or for a particular purpose.

Equipment can also be a tool or a machine which one actually needs while he is climbing. If an old man who is using a wooden stick for walking, so that wooden stick is also known as equipment.

Some examples of equipment are given below:

• The mechanic could not repair the car because she did not have the right equipment.
• The boy could not afford the equipment necessary for mountaineering.
• Equipment hire is included in the price.
• Are you going to give us extra equipments for climbing?

DEVICE is the equipment or a mechanism used for specific purpose, on the contrary, EQUIPMENT is used for operational purpose, such as Apparatus.

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