MILITARY INSTALLATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does military installation mean? 

• MILITARY INSTALLATION (noun)
  The noun MILITARY INSTALLATION has 1 sense:

1. any facility servicing military forces

  Familiarity information: MILITARY INSTALLATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILITARY INSTALLATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any facility servicing military forces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("military installation" is a kind of...):

facility; installation (a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry)

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 "military installation"):

armory; armoury; arsenal (a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms)

base; base of operations (installation from which a military force initiates operations)

emplacement (military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon)

headquarters; HQ; military headquarters (the military installation from which a commander performs the functions of command)

military post; post (military installation at which a body of troops is stationed)

naval installation; shore station (military installation servicing naval forces)

silo (military installation consisting of an underground structure where ballistic missiles can be stored and fired)

Instance hyponyms:

West Point (United States Army installation on the west bank of Hudson river to the north of New York City; site of United States Military Academy)