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The act of putting something in a certain place or location
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emplacement
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1742, from French emplacement "place, situation," from verb emplacer , from assimilated form of en- "in" (see en- (1)) + placer "to place" (see place (v.)). Gunnery sense attested from 1811.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Emplacement may refer to: A place where something is located Fortification Artillery battery Casemate , fortified gun emplacement Redoubt , enclosed defense emplacement
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emplacement \Em*place"ment\, n. [Cf. F. emplacement.] A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon the act of putting something in a certain place or location [syn: placement , location , locating , position , positioning ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An installation that houses a military weapon. 2 A place where a thing is located; the act of placing something somewhere. 3 (context geology English) The inclusion of igneous rock in older rocks, or the development or localization of an ore body in ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a cannon emplacement EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A bellows emplacement had survived just in front of the fire box of the south-eastern furnace. ▪ At the other extreme of cost is drilled emplacement . ▪ However, the emplacement ...
Usage examples of emplacement.
The next anyone knew he was on the edge of town at one of the Bofors emplacements, being shown how to operate the guns.
Routed out by sirens at three in the morning - at 3:30 out to the airfield past the Bofors emplacements, the wardens, the fire-fighting crews.
He knew better than to try to dig emplacements in the Lower Town, of course, recalling the cofferdams that had been necessary in order to get the walls and foundations down to bedrock.
These self-sustaining concrete bunkers and gun emplacements went on for miles surrounded by hidden tank traps, a massive in-depth defense that was a kind of modern Maginot Line.
Up on the monkey island above the bridge a pair of 20mm Oerlikon cannons nestled in a circular emplacement shaped like the small, wooden bull rings, miniature amphitheatres, so common in French towns near the Pyrenees.
Xuey, Sergeant Schenk, and one platoon occupied the vacant gun emplacements of the Viet Minh.
Xuey waved boldly to them as they passed the first gun emplacement, now manned by Schenk and six troops.
Dovin basals pillaged the New Republic fighters of their shields and assailed them with streams of molten rock gushed from cone-shaped weapons emplacements.
When night fell Colonel Sim was despatched with a party of Sappers to clear the track and to prepare two emplacements upon the top, but in his advance he met the retiring infantry.
His father had Hplaced him in charge of ferrying the cannon ashore and building the stone emplacements to house them, overlooking the narrow entrance to the lagoon.
Ned Tyler, and pointed across the water to where a puff of white gunsmoke still hung over one of the emplacements that guarded the entrance.
Then Sir Francis strode along the gun emplacements in the cliff and gave a curt set of orders to the men who crouched over the culver ins with the burning slow-match.
All the rest of that morning the crew of the Gull behaved like that of any other ship preparing for sea, and though Daniel and his gun crews with cannon loaded and aimed, and with slow-match burning, watched the Gull from their hidden emplacements dug into the sandy soil along the edge of the forest, she gave them no hint of treachery.
He went down the line of gun emplacements, speaking softly to the men on watch behind the culver ins He checked once more the laying of each, making sure that they were truly aimed at the dark shape of the Gull, as she lay in a spangle of star reflections on the surface of the still, dark lagoon.
They ran down the line of emplacements, and in each found sweetly reeking oaken kegs and inert bodies.