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单词 emplacement
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Definition of emplacement in English:

emplacement

noun ɛmˈpleɪsm(ə)ntɪmˈpleɪsm(ə)ntəmˈpleɪsmənt
  • 1A structure on or in which something is firmly placed.

    a machine bolted to a concrete emplacement
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A twisted propeller and an abandoned gun, mounted on a concrete emplacement, stand beside the memorial.
    • From the top front corners of the computer terminal, small laser emplacements emerged and aimed at Saurox.
    1. 1.1 A platform or defended position where a gun is placed for firing.
      a gun emplacement
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Meanwhile, small groups of airborne troops destroyed bridges and gun emplacements, and captured crossroads and routes inland.
      • Deployment of weapons and combat hardware in emplacements reduces the probability of their detection two to three times.
      • Concrete emplacements were built but they were few and far between with each emplacement having little ability to give any other covering fire.
      • A howitzer is a field artillery piece, used primarily to attack enemy personnel, fortifications, and artillery emplacements.
      • Looking out of the bus window, I saw tank traps, sandbagged trenches, tank emplacements, barbed wire, low flying copters.
      • On each corner of the warehouses roof were sandbagged machine gun emplacements, which were manned twenty four hours a day and provided the first line in the facility's defence.
      • Coalition air forces also strike long-range artillery emplacements, air defense sites and surface-to-surface missile sites.
      • Crouching down, he could see the enemy's machine-gun emplacement.
      • Redundant concrete gun emplacements vie with majestic mountains for the attention of tourist cameras.
      • Unit members claim that a man strolling up to the gun emplacement, spotted their observation post and ‘went for his weapon’.
      • The national guard was called in and set up sandbagged machine gun emplacements downtown.
      • Throughout the map, you'll discover heavily armed bunkers, guard towers and emplacements to fend off your foes' offensives from land, sea or air.
      • His platoon, attacking heavily fortified and strategically located hostile emplacements, had been stopped by intense fire from a large bunker containing several firing posts.
      • They operated up to 12 miles behind enemy lines, looking for hidden enemy targets such as artillery and mortar positions, anti-aircraft emplacements, bunker systems and storage caves.
      • Although already wounded, he left the comparative safety of his position and made a daring charge against the machine-gun emplacement.
      • Old World War II gun emplacements and observation towers rust and crumble silently.
      • The captured defensive installations and stationary weapon emplacements can then be used for your side.
      Synonyms
      positioning, location, position, situation, lie, bearings, angle, placement, direction, alignment, locating, situating
  • 2Geology
    mass noun The process or state of setting something in place or being set in place.

    the emplacement of granite intrusions
    count noun massive emplacements of magma
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The model therefore ignores the effects of any horizontal loads that might arise as a consequence of ophiolite emplacement.
    • Of these, only the emplacement and structure of the Strontian Granite has been studied in detail.
    • In some instances, there is clear evidence for the accompanying emplacement of mantle-derived mafic magmas, providing a source for the anomalous heating.
    • In both cases, the sequence of events started with extensional basin magmatism and culminated in emplacement of plutons, passing through basin subsidence.
    • The development of extensional and shear fractures in volcanic areas is usually related to magma emplacement at shallow crustal levels.
    • The scarcity of evidence from magmatic fabrics for granite emplacement during regional shortening may reflect the general persistence of deformation to sub-solidus states.
    • The abundance of magmatic layering in this granite affords an unusual glimpse of early emplacement processes.
    • However, this mode of emplacement is contradictory to well-established ideas for Archaean granites in the Zimbabwe craton.
    • They probably represent the time of igneous emplacement of the granitic source rocks.
    • However, the emplacement of these granites is still poorly constrained.

Derivatives

  • emplace

  • verb ɪmˈpleɪs
    [with object]
    • Put into place or position; fix.

      to emplace the support columns, the contractor drilled 12 feet into the rock
      Example sentencesExamples
      • the volcanic rocks were emplaced in Mid-Jurassic times
      • Parts of Sri Lanka are infested with buried explosives emplaced during two decades of civil war.
      • In a theater of operations, theater commanders have the authority to emplace obstacles.
      • We have to depend upon scatterable mines emplaced by the Volcano system.

Origin

Early 19th century: from French, from em- 'in' + place 'a place'.

 
 

Definition of emplacement in US English:

emplacement

nounəmˈplāsməntəmˈpleɪsmənt
  • 1A structure on or in which something is firmly placed.

    a machine bolted to a concrete emplacement
    Example sentencesExamples
    • From the top front corners of the computer terminal, small laser emplacements emerged and aimed at Saurox.
    • A twisted propeller and an abandoned gun, mounted on a concrete emplacement, stand beside the memorial.
    1. 1.1 A platform or defended position where a gun is placed for firing.
      a gun emplacement
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Unit members claim that a man strolling up to the gun emplacement, spotted their observation post and ‘went for his weapon’.
      • Coalition air forces also strike long-range artillery emplacements, air defense sites and surface-to-surface missile sites.
      • Looking out of the bus window, I saw tank traps, sandbagged trenches, tank emplacements, barbed wire, low flying copters.
      • They operated up to 12 miles behind enemy lines, looking for hidden enemy targets such as artillery and mortar positions, anti-aircraft emplacements, bunker systems and storage caves.
      • Old World War II gun emplacements and observation towers rust and crumble silently.
      • Throughout the map, you'll discover heavily armed bunkers, guard towers and emplacements to fend off your foes' offensives from land, sea or air.
      • On each corner of the warehouses roof were sandbagged machine gun emplacements, which were manned twenty four hours a day and provided the first line in the facility's defence.
      • The national guard was called in and set up sandbagged machine gun emplacements downtown.
      • His platoon, attacking heavily fortified and strategically located hostile emplacements, had been stopped by intense fire from a large bunker containing several firing posts.
      • The captured defensive installations and stationary weapon emplacements can then be used for your side.
      • A howitzer is a field artillery piece, used primarily to attack enemy personnel, fortifications, and artillery emplacements.
      • Crouching down, he could see the enemy's machine-gun emplacement.
      • Meanwhile, small groups of airborne troops destroyed bridges and gun emplacements, and captured crossroads and routes inland.
      • Deployment of weapons and combat hardware in emplacements reduces the probability of their detection two to three times.
      • Redundant concrete gun emplacements vie with majestic mountains for the attention of tourist cameras.
      • Concrete emplacements were built but they were few and far between with each emplacement having little ability to give any other covering fire.
      • Although already wounded, he left the comparative safety of his position and made a daring charge against the machine-gun emplacement.
      Synonyms
      positioning, location, position, situation, lie, bearings, angle, placement, direction, alignment, locating, situating
  • 2Geology
    The process or state of setting something in place or being set in place.

    the emplacement of granite intrusions
    count noun massive emplacements of magma
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The development of extensional and shear fractures in volcanic areas is usually related to magma emplacement at shallow crustal levels.
    • They probably represent the time of igneous emplacement of the granitic source rocks.
    • However, the emplacement of these granites is still poorly constrained.
    • The abundance of magmatic layering in this granite affords an unusual glimpse of early emplacement processes.
    • However, this mode of emplacement is contradictory to well-established ideas for Archaean granites in the Zimbabwe craton.
    • The model therefore ignores the effects of any horizontal loads that might arise as a consequence of ophiolite emplacement.
    • In some instances, there is clear evidence for the accompanying emplacement of mantle-derived mafic magmas, providing a source for the anomalous heating.
    • The scarcity of evidence from magmatic fabrics for granite emplacement during regional shortening may reflect the general persistence of deformation to sub-solidus states.
    • In both cases, the sequence of events started with extensional basin magmatism and culminated in emplacement of plutons, passing through basin subsidence.
    • Of these, only the emplacement and structure of the Strontian Granite has been studied in detail.

Origin

Early 19th century: from French, from em- ‘in’ + place ‘a place’.

 
 
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