PLACEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does placement mean? 

• PLACEMENT (noun)
  The noun PLACEMENT has 3 senses:

1. the spatial property of the way in which something is placed

2. contact established between applicants and prospective employees

3. the act of putting something in a certain place

  Familiarity information: PLACEMENT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLACEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The spatial property of the way in which something is placed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

arrangement; placement

Context example:

the placement of the chairs

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

position; spatial relation (the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated)

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

formation (a particular spatial arrangement)

columniation ((architecture) the arrangement of columns (especially freestanding columns) in a structure)

composing; composition (the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole)

fenestration (the arrangement of windows in a building)

balance; proportion; proportionality (harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design))

alignment (the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines)

misalignment (the spatial property of things that are not properly aligned)

ramification (an arrangement of branching parts)

spacing; spatial arrangement (the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them)

tandem (an arrangement of two or more objects or persons one behind another)

Derivation:

place (put into a certain place or abstract location)

place (locate)

place (assign a location to)

place (identify the location or place of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Contact established between applicants and prospective employees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the agency provided placement services

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

contact (close interaction)

Sense 3

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 ("placement" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

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

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

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

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

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

set (the act of putting something in position)

repositioning (the act of placing in a new position)

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

planting (the act of fixing firmly in place)

orientation (the act of orienting)

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

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

 Context examples 

A bacterial family of uncertain placement in the phylum Firmicutes and the order Clostridiales that is used to classify the genus Mogibacterium.

(Clostridiales XIII, NCI Thesaurus)

An electrocardiogram (ECG) lead placement whereby 4 chest electrodes and 1 reference electrode are used to allow for continuous monitoring at the clinical level.

(Lead Placement EASI Dower Transformation, NCI Thesaurus)

A solid intended for placement within the uterine cavity where active and/or inert ingredient(s) are released from an apparatus at a controlled rate.

(Intrauterine Device Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

It involves the placement of a shunt in a ventricle of the brain that is threaded under the skin to another part of the body.

(Cerebrospinal fluid diversion, NCI Thesaurus)

A bacterial family of uncertain placement in the phylum Firmicutes and the order Clostridiales that is used to classify the genera Tissierella, Finegoldia and Anaerococcus, among others.

(Clostridiales XI, NCI Thesaurus)

An electrocardiogram (ECG) lead placement that is a type of uncorrected vectorcardiograph.

(Lead Placement Cube, NCI Thesaurus)

An electrocardiogram (ECG) lead placement that allows monitoring and recording of cardiac electrical activity.

(Lead Placement Pseudo Orthogonal XYZ, NCI Thesaurus)

Anatomical placement of a particular portion of an organism.

(Organism Part Location, NCI Thesaurus)

Images made by ultrasound guide placement of a stent (tube), which remains in the liver.

(Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage, NCI Dictionary)

Placement of intracoronary devices across the coronary stenosis is troublesome or formidable.

(Difficulty Crossing Culprit Lesion During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)