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A formal entry into a position or office
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installation
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Installation (or setup ) of a computer program (including device drivers and plugins ), is the act of making the program ready for execution . Because the process varies for each program and each computer, programs (including operating systems ) often come ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"action of installing," mid-15c., of church offices or other positions, from Medieval Latin installationem (nominative installatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of installare (see install ). Of machinery, etc., "act of setting up," from 1882. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE electrical ▪ In the case of electrical installations , or procedures involving hazards, preliminary safety actions and final safety checks are needed. ▪ We will carry out a free survey of your electrical installations ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of installing something (as equipment); "the telephone installation took only a few minutes" [syn: installing , installment , instalment ] a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry; "the assembly ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An act of install. 2 Something installed, especially the whole of a system of machines, apparatus, and accessories, when set up and arranged for practical working, as in electric lighting, transmission of power, etc. 3 A work of installation art. 4 ...
Usage examples of installation.
South End of Bahr Assad Tabaqah Air Base, Syria Thursday, 9 March 1995 1130 Hours, Local While Newman and Samir were quenching their thirst and avoiding the Syrian Interior Ministry police in Dayr Az Zawr, General Komulakov and most of his combined force of retired KGB Department V thugs and PFLP terrorists were enjoying the relative luxury of a Syrian Air Force hangar at the military installation protecting the hydroelectric dam at the south end of nearby Lake Assad.
Have you got any idea of what a solid-cash basis even one installation like Project Barbizon is?
There were straightbacked pews of yellowing birch and a matching installation of squared-off benchwork at the front for the court officers.
Then I can go right to work on the installation as soon as the cabinetwork arrives tomorrow morning.
With Yeaton, Henry went over some drawings of cabinetwork and instructed him that, before proceeding with fabrication and installation, Yeaton should submit all shop drawings and samples of material to him in New York for approval.
These men were a remnant of the thousands of Czarist supporters who had died since the installation of the new regime.
If the damnyankees flew airplanes off the deck of a ship at the ships and the shore installations here, they would catch as much hell as the gunners could give them.
Given that your actions were directly responsible for the ascents of the last two chancellors, not to mention the installation of Emperor Kahless and the fall of the House of Duras, it is, if anything, an understatement.
The main bulk of moon installations were built in areas situated so that Earthrise and Earthset added dimension.
He needs to take out our installations in Finnmark, destroy our dominance of the Barents Sea.
After laying out the plan, Franks left for Afghanistan for the installation of Hamid Karzai as the Afghan president.
Agat on Guam, evacuated by the Guamanians and occupied only by Japanese military installations.
Canyon of the Hohokam into a wide sweep of desert land, bringing them down again before a carefully camouflaged installation.
Callisto Gallery with a photographer, a nice-enough on-the-make Liverpudlian called Tom Sprot, to illustrate an article on a new feminist installation, she goes in a friendly enough mood.
Lee is a brilliant engineer, and his army career moves him to a variety of posts where his expertise and skill contribute much to the construction of the military installations and forts along the Atlantic coast.