Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A prepared position, such as a mounting or silo, for a military weapon.
- noun The act of putting into a certain position; placement.
- noun Position; location.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A placing or fixing in place; location.
- noun Place or site.
- noun The platform or bed prepared for a gun and its carriage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
installation that houses amilitary weapon . - noun A place where a thing is
located ; the act ofplacing something somewhere. - noun geology The
inclusion ofigneous rock in older rocks, or the development or localization of anore body in older rocks. The latter is referred to asore deposition .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of putting something in a certain place
- noun military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This dazzle painting of a gun emplacement is cool: Link.
Boing Boing 2007
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The emplacement is a small mountain in itself; the men have run out into holes.
From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens
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The numerous white spots all about the emplacement are the craters caused by the bombs which were rained upon it.
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We use this word "emplacement" a lot in this show because ever since Feminism in the 70s there has been a focus on the body as a site, a political site and a site of subjectivity and I think that yes, our bodies are involved, but it also happens to be where we are at this place at this time at any given moment that affects our subjectivity.
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We use this word "emplacement" a lot in this show because ever since Feminism in the 70s there has been a focus on the body as a site, a political site and a site of subjectivity and I think that yes, our bodies are involved, but it also happens to be where we are at this place at this time at any given moment that affects our subjectivity.
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And it wasn't until the mid-1990s when the Philippines suddenly discovered, on an obscure atoll, one of these rocks, that there was, in fact, not uninhabited rock but a Chinese concrete military emplacement.
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And it wasn't until the mid-1990s when the Philippines suddenly discovered, on an obscure atoll, one of these rocks, that there was, in fact, not uninhabited rock but a Chinese concrete military emplacement that had appeared unbeknownst to them.
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The worst of it is that each newspaper disappearing below the horizon carries with it, if not a point of view, at least a potential emplacement for one.
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In it a team of Allied commandos take on the suicidal mission of destroying a massive German gun emplacement watching over a vital sea channel.
Bucking the Times of India Rohin Dharmakumar 2010
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The proscription for economic stimilus under the current economic situation becomes emplacement of a two (2%) percent tariff, reemplacement of Corporate and Business taxes, and sharp reduction of Government expenditure (I live for the day when this expenditure is less than 14.3% of GDP).
Economic Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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