emplacement

From French emplacement, from en- + placement.

emplacement (countable and uncountable, plural emplacements)

1. An installation that houses a military weapon.
2. A place where a thing is located; the act of placing something somewhere.
3. (geology) The inclusion of igneous rock in older rocks, or the development or localization of an ore body in older rocks. The latter is referred to as ore deposition.

From en- +‎ placer (“to place”) +‎ -ment.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.plas.mɑ̃/

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emplacement m (plural emplacements)

1. site, location

• “emplacement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.