noun
- 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.
noun
- a prepared position for the siting of a gun or other weapon
- the act of putting or state of being put in place
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.