installation
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Meaning
The act of installing or giving possession of an office, rank, or order, with the usual rites or ceremonies; as, the installation of an ordained minister in a parish.
The whole of a system of machines, apparatus, and accessories, when set up and arranged for practical working, as in electric lighting, transmission of power, etc.
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the assembly plant is an enormous facility
his initiation into the club
he was ordered to report for induction into the army
he gave a speech as part of his installation into the hall of fame
the telephone installation took only a few minutes
A 1959 survey had found that in any data processing installation, the programming cost US$800,000 on average and that translating programs to run on new hardware would cost $600,000.