 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
installation
noun
1: the act of installing something (as equipment); "the
telephone installation took only a few minutes" [syn: {installing},
{installment}, {instalment}]
2: a building or place that provides a particular service or is
used for a particular industry; "the assembly plant is an
enormous facility" [syn: {facility}]
3: a formal entry into an organization or position or office;
"his initiation into the club"; "he was ordered to report
for induction into the army"; "he gave a speech as part of
his installation into the hall of fame" [syn: {initiation},
{induction}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Installation \In'stal*la"tion\, noun [F. installation, LL.
installatio: cf. It. installazione. See {Install}.]
1. The act of installing; as, the installation of the air
conditioner took half an hour.
Syn: installing, setting up.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
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. --Ayliffe.
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.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
4. (Mil.) The whole of a military base, post, camp, outpost,
etc., constructed and operated for support of military
operations.
[PJC]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
145 Moby Thesaurus words for "installation":
accedence, acceptance, accession, accouterments, admission,
admittance, agency, anchorage, apostolic orders, apparatus,
appliances, appointment, appointments, appurtenances, armament,
atelier, baptism, barbershop, base, beauty parlor, beauty shop,
bench, butcher shop, calling, camp, canonization, colonization,
coming out, company, concern, conferment, connection, consecration,
constitution, conveniences, coronation, corporation, crowning,
curtain raiser, debut, depot, desk, duffel, effectuation, election,
embarkation, embarkment, enlistment, enrollment, enthronement,
equipage, equipment, establishment, facilities, facility, firm,
first appearance, fitting, fittings, fixation, fixtures, floating,
flotation, formation, foundation, furnishings, furniture, gear,
holy orders, house, immission, impedimenta, inaugural,
inaugural address, inauguration, inception, induction, initiation,
installations, installment, instatement, institution, introduction,
intromission, investiture, kit, launching, lodgment, loft,
machinery, maiden speech, major orders, materialization, materiel,
minor orders, mooring, munition, munitions, nomination, opener,
ordainment, orders, ordination, organization, outfit,
paraphernalia, parlor, peopling, placement, plant, plantation,
plumbing, population, positioning, post, preferment, preliminary,
presentation, reading in, realization, rig, rigging, setting-up,
settlement, settling, shop, solemnization, station, stock-in-trade,
studio, sweatshop, tackle, taking office, things, unveiling,
utensils, work site, work space, workbench, workhouse,
working space, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable
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