Installation

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2) 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.
 * 3) A grouping of facilities that constitute a permanent military base

Thesaurus
accedence, acceptance, accession, accouterments, admission, admittance, agency, anchorage, apostolic orders, apparatus, appliances, appointment, appointments, appurtenances, armament, atelier, baptism, barbershop, base, beauty parlor, beauty shop, bench, butcher shop, calling, camp, canonization, colonization, coming out, company, concern, conferment, connection, consecration, constitution, conveniences, coronation, corporation, crowning, curtain raiser, debut, depot, desk, duffel, effectuation, election, embarkation, embarkment, enlistment, enrollment, enthronement, equipage, equipment, establishment, facilities, facility, firm, first appearance, fitting, fittings, fixation, fixtures, floating, flotation, formation, foundation, furnishings, furniture, gear, holy orders, house, immission, impedimenta, inaugural, inaugural address, inauguration, inception, induction, initiation, installations, installment, instatement, institution, introduction, intromission, investiture, kit, launching, lodgment, loft, machinery, maiden speech, major orders, materialization, materiel, minor orders, mooring, munition, munitions, nomination, opener, ordainment, orders, ordination, organization, outfit, paraphernalia, parlor, peopling, placement, plant, plantation, plumbing, population, positioning, post, preferment, preliminary, presentation, reading in, realization, rig, rigging, setting-up, settlement, settling, shop, solemnization, station, stock-in-trade, studio, sweatshop, tackle, taking office, things, unveiling, utensils, work site, work space, workbench, workhouse, working space, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable

Etymology
From install + -ation

Translations

 * Chinese: 就職
 * French:
 * Italian:


 * Polish: instalacja, montaż
 * Romanian: instalare
 * Spanish:


 * Chinese:
 * Traditional: 裝置
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Italian:
 * Polish: instalacja
 * Romanian: instalație
 * Spanish:


 * Simplified: 装置; 设施
 * Simplified: 装置; 设施

Derived terms

 * installation art

Noun

 * 1) installation

Etymology
installer + -ation