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emplacement

/em-pleys-muhnt/US // ɛmˈpleɪs mənt //UK // (ɪmˈpleɪsmənt) //

进驻,进驻方式,进场,安置

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Fortification. the space, platform, or the like, for a gun or battery and its accessories.
    • : a putting in place or position; location: the emplacement of a wall.
    • : Geology. the intrusion of igneous rocks into a particular position.the development of an ore deposit in a particular place.

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Examples

  • It’s often mentioned as one of the possible causes behind this big dinosaur extinction — the plume was responsible for these huge eruptions and the emplacement of these really large volumes of igneous rocks.

  • The three fugitive slaves, before their escape, had been helping build a Confederate gun emplacement.

  • The famous Cave Canem, too, the only mosaic that remains intact, has been twice removed from its original emplacement.

  • Every trench, redoubt, and dug-out; every hedge and ditch was recorded, and every gun emplacement shown.

  • Nobody cared about left-hand Gun Hill; he was only a 47 howitzer; every glass was clamped on the big yellow emplacement.

  • In the meantime he has had his gun's name, "Lady Ellen," neatly carved on a stone and put up on his emplacement.

  • Mattia did not show himself until the soldiers began preparing an emplacement for their gun.