INSTALLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does installing mean? 

• INSTALLING (noun)
  The noun INSTALLING has 1 sense:

1. the act of installing something (as equipment)

  Familiarity information: INSTALLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSTALLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of installing something (as equipment)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

installation; installing; installment; instalment

Context example:

the telephone installation took only a few minutes

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

beginning; commencement; start (the act of starting something)

Derivation:

instal; install (set up for use)

 Context examples 

No; he said he had known you long, and that he could take the liberty of installing himself here till you returned.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)