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Installation   /ˌɪnstəlˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Installation

noun
1.
The act of installing something (as equipment).  Synonyms: installing, installment, instalment.
2.
A building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry.  Synonym: facility.
3.
A formal entry into an organization or position or office.  Synonyms: induction, initiation.  "He was ordered to report for induction into the army" , "He gave a speech as part of his installation into the hall of fame"



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"Installation" Quotes from Famous Books



... the outset was extremely limited. In short, the project needed to build a network, which at that time entailed use of satellite technology, that is, putting earth stations on campus and also acquiring some terrestrial links from the State of California's microwave system. The installation of satellite links, however, did not solve the problem (which actually formed part of a larger problem involving politics and financial resources). For while the project team could get a signal onto a campus, it had no means of distributing the signal ...
— LOC WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC TEXTS • James Daly

... of work. The great majority of these courses have been installed as a result of his endeavors. Only three of the 21 courses in these colleges have been established independently of his encouragement but in most instances by his formal installation. The following institutions offer as electives courses in Sunday School management, organization and teaching: Atlanta University, Benedict College, Lane College, Claflin University, Clark University, Fisk University, Howard University, Lincoln University, Livingstone College, ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 • Various

... her delight at the idea of governing in the name of her son, who was weak and gentle in character and accustomed to obey her implicitly. She asked her brother's permission to go to Trikala to be present at the installation, and obtained it, to everybody's astonishment; for no one could imagine that Ali would peacefully renounce so important a government as that of Thessaly. However, he dissembled so skilfully that everyone was deceived ...
— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - ALI PACHA • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE

... small planet has many millions of square miles of surface, and a single human installation on a whole world will not be easy to find by random search. But there were clues to this one. Men hunting for sport would not choose a tropic nor an arctic climate to hunt in. So if they found a mineral deposit, it would have ...
— This World Is Taboo • Murray Leinster

... break their way into the station. Guardsman Jaeger fired his demolitions as he left, firing the screen generator with his last flare. For a few minutes, the natives fell back before the flames, but they were entering the station by the time we cleared the planet. It is believed that the installation ...
— Indirection • Everett B. Cole


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