EMPLACEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emplacement mean? 

• EMPLACEMENT (noun)
  The noun EMPLACEMENT has 2 senses:

1. military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon

2. the act of putting something in a certain place

  Familiarity information: EMPLACEMENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMPLACEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("emplacement" is a kind of...):

military installation (any facility servicing military forces)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "emplacement"):

gun emplacement; weapons emplacement (an emplacement for a gun)

Derivation:

emplace (provide a new emplacement for guns)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of putting something in a certain place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

emplacement; locating; location; placement; position; positioning

Hypernyms ("emplacement" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "emplacement"):

stratification (the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination)

apposition; collocation; juxtaposition (the act of positioning close together (or side by side))

interposition; intervention (the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others)

orientation (the act of orienting)

planting (the act of fixing firmly in place)

implantation (the act of planting or setting in the ground)

repositioning (the act of placing in a new position)

set (the act of putting something in position)

superposition (the placement of one thing on top of another)

fingering (the placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument)

superposition ((geometry) the placement of one object ideally in the position of another one in order to show that the two coincide)

Derivation:

emplace (put into place or position)