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US
/ɪmˈpɫeɪsmənt/
]
[ UK /ɛmplˈeɪsmənt/ ]
[ UK /ɛmplˈeɪsmənt/ ]
NOUN
- the act of putting something in a certain place
- military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon
How To Use emplacement In A Sentence
- In other cases, generating a demand requires the emplacement of an infrastructure of maintenance for the successful adoption of innovations.
- Deployment of weapons and combat hardware in emplacements reduces the probability of their detection two to three times.
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- Looking out of the bus window, I saw tank traps, sandbagged trenches, tank emplacements, barbed wire, low flying copters.
- From Pliocene time the shallow emplacement of intrusive bodies resulted in thermal metamorphism (forming, for example, biotite, cordierite, andalusite, K-feldspar and corundum in pelites) and hydrothermal activity.
- A passel of kids of varying ages, the cousins love playing baseball in the front yard, romping on the beach just two blocks away, or exploring what's left of the Fort Tilden gun emplacements that overlook the Atlantic Ocean.
- Crouching down, he could see the enemy's machine-gun emplacement.
- His platoon, attacking heavily fortified and strategically located hostile emplacements, had been stopped by intense fire from a large bunker containing several firing posts.
- The captured defensive installations and stationary weapon emplacements can then be used for your side.
- This simple robot gun emplacement is suitable for driving off smaller hostile life forms for an extended period of time.