Definitions for emplacement

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emplacement em·place·ment

Spelling: [em-pleys-muh nt]

IPA: /ɛmˈpleɪs mənt/

Emplacement is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 461 anagrams from letters in emplacement (aceeelmmnpt).

Definitions for emplacement

noun

1. Fortification. the space, platform, or the like, for a gun or battery and its accessories.
2. a putting in place or position; location:
3. 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

Examples for emplacement

Some thirty yards in front of her, in an emplacement of its own, stands the 12lb.

By way of retaliation, I leaned over and shot at what looked like an emplacement.

There are few cases where some contradiction of emplacement with pose cannot be detected.

Eagerly they looked to discover some signs of the emplacement of the big gun.

They were commanded by de Villiers, who dashed for the emplacement of gun.

We went down the slopes leading to our emplacement in the village.

Happily, in this emplacement we don't live in water as we do in the trenches.

All the sand for the fill around the emplacement was obtained in the same way.

We halted close to the emplacement where one of the Boer guns had been yesterday.

It has a Palazzo Ducale most remarkable in its architecture and its emplacement.