Synonyms for emplacement

Grammar : Noun

Spell : em-pleys-muh nt

Phonetic Transcription : ɛmˈpleɪs mənt

Définition of emplacement

Origin : 1802, from French emplacement "place, situation," from emplacer (16c.), from en- "in" (see en- (1)) + placer "to place" (see place (v.)). Gunnery sense attested from 1811.

noun position

Example sentences :

All the sand for the fill around the emplacement was obtained in the same way.
Extract from : « Concrete Construction » by Halbert P. Gillette

It has a Palazzo Ducale most remarkable in its architecture and its emplacement.
Extract from : « Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car » by Francis Miltoun

They were commanded by de Villiers, who dashed for the emplacement of gun.
Extract from : « South Africa and the Boer-British War, Volume I » by J. Castell Hopkins

Eagerly they looked to discover some signs of the emplacement of the big gun.
Extract from : « Air Service Boys Over The Rhine » by Charles Amory Beach

By way of retaliation, I leaned over and shot at what looked like an emplacement.
Extract from : « Cavalry of the Clouds » by Alan Bott

Happily, in this emplacement we don't live in water as we do in the trenches.
Extract from : « Letters of a Soldier » by Anonymous

We went down the slopes leading to our emplacement in the village.
Extract from : « Letters of a Soldier » by Anonymous

Some thirty yards in front of her, in an emplacement of its own, stands the 12lb.
Extract from : « Ladysmith » by H. W. Nevinson

We halted close to the emplacement where one of the Boer guns had been yesterday.
Extract from : « In the Ranks of the C.I.V. » by Erskine Childers

There are few cases where some contradiction of emplacement with pose cannot be detected.
Extract from : « Donatello » by David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford

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