Definitions for emplacements

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emplacements em·place·ment

Spelling: [em-pleys-muh nt]

IPA: /ɛmˈpleɪs mənt/

Emplacements is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 971 anagrams from letters in emplacements (aceeelmmnpst).

Definitions for emplacements

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 emplacements

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

Examples for emplacements

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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