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Installation   /ˌɪnstəlˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Installation  n.  
1.
The act of installing; as, the installation of the air conditioner took half an hour.
Synonyms: installing, setting up.
2.
Hence: The act of installing (a person) or giving possession of an office, rank, or order, with the usual rites or ceremonies; as, the installation of an ordained minister in a parish. "On the election, the bishop gives a mandate for his installation."
3.
(Mech.) The whole of a system of machines, apparatus, and accessories, sometimes including the buildings and gorounds on which they are located, when set up and arranged for practical working, as in electric lighting, transmission of power, etc.; as, our installation in Baton Rouge can produce ten thousand gallons a day; we should move our drying installation from building A to building B.
4.
(Mil.) The whole of a military base, post, camp, outpost, etc., constructed and operated for support of military operations.





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"Installation" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Swift's installation as Dean, the following scurrilous lines by Smedley, Dean of Clogher, were affixed to the doors ...
— The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume I (of 2) • Jonathan Swift
... share in the coup d'etat of Fructidor, we must briefly review the course of political events at Paris. At the time of the installation of the Directory the hope was widely cherished that the Revolution was now entirely a thing of the past. But the unrest of the time was seen in the renewal of the royalist revolts in the west, and in the communistic plot of Babeuf for the overthrow of the whole existing system of private property. ...
— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose
... said Plotinus, who with all his mysticism was so good a man of business that, as his biographers acquaint us, he was in special request as a trustee, "and now, concerning this roll of thine. Is it possible that the accounts connected with the installation of a few abstemious lovers of wisdom can have swollen to such a prodigous bulk? But indeed, why few? Peradventure all the philosophers of the earth have flocked ...
— The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales • Richard Garnett
... and then as now men who worked for the general welfare regardless of their own petty preferences were rare. To the side of the enemies of the infant invention flocked every one with a grievance. The gentry argued that the installation of locomotives would frighten the game out of the country and ruin the shooting. Other opposers contended that the smoke from the engines would not only kill the birds but in time kill the patrons of the railroads as well. Still others protested that the sparks ...
— Steve and the Steam Engine • Sara Ware Bassett
... 8th.—The installation of the Shah, which took place to-day on the plain to the north of the city, was a spectacle worth seeing on account of the grand display of troops; but there were very few of the inhabitants of Candahar or surrounding ...
— Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The - Neighbouring Countries • William Griffith


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