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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
- This was accompanied by the multistage emplacement of large intrusive bodies in the Cambrian, Ordovician, and Silurian periods.
- The upper intercept defined by the six collinear points is 610.4 + 0.9 / - 0.7 Ma and is considered to be the best estimate of the timing of emplacement of the intrusion.
- They probably represent the time of igneous emplacement of the granitic source rocks.
- A howitzer is a field artillery piece, used primarily to attack enemy personnel, fortifications, and artillery emplacements.
- The chief commodity sought is tin, as fine-grained cassiterite in vein swarms related to the emplacement of granitic rocks within sedimentary carbonates.
- Meanwhile, bridges had been thrown across trenches and 'boyaux', and the artillery, leaving the emplacements where they had been anchored a whole year, came across and took position in the open, Poems
- Concrete emplacement has some shape transition.
- Around airfields and other installations of national importance emplacements of the distinctive Soviet ZSU-23 multi-barrelled anti-aircraft guns could be seen.
- The terrain was such that you couldn't sneak up to the machine gun emplacement without being seen.
- Indications of planation near the Inner SDR might either indicate that this unit formed partly under subaerial conditions (subaerial seafloor spreading) or that an uplift episode occurred after its emplacement.