emplacement

[em-pleys-muh nt]

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noun

Fortification. the space, platform, or the like, for a gun or battery and its accessories.

a putting in place or position; location: the emplacement of a wall.

Geology.

the intrusion of igneous rocks into a particular position.
the development of an ore deposit in a particular place.

Origin of emplacement

1795–1805; < French, equivalent to obsolete emplac(er) to place (em- em-¹ + placer to place) + -ment -ment

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Related Words for emplacement

placement, space, spot, site, station, place, location, situation, positioning

Examples from the Web for emplacement

Historical Examples of emplacement

All the sand for the fill around the emplacement was obtained in the same way.
Concrete Construction
Halbert P. Gillette
It has a Palazzo Ducale most remarkable in its architecture and its emplacement.
Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car
Francis Miltoun
They were commanded by de Villiers, who dashed for the emplacement of gun.
South Africa and the Boer-British War, Volume I
J. Castell Hopkins
Eagerly they looked to discover some signs of the emplacement of the big gun.
Air Service Boys Over The Rhine
Charles Amory Beach
By way of retaliation, I leaned over and shot at what looked like an emplacement.
Cavalry of the Clouds
Alan Bott

British Dictionary definitions for emplacement

emplacement

noun

a prepared position for the siting of a gun or other weapon

the act of putting or state of being put in place

Word Origin for emplacement

C19: from French, from obsolete emplacer to put in position, from place

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Word Origin and History for emplacement

1802, from French emplacement "place, situation," from emplacer (16c.), from en- "in" (see en- (1)) + placer "to place" (see place (v.)). Gunnery sense attested from 1811.