emplacements in English

noun
1
a structure on or in which something is firmly placed.
A twisted propeller and an abandoned gun, mounted on a concrete emplacement , stand beside the memorial.
2
the process or state of setting something in place or being set in place.
In both cases, the sequence of events started with extensional basin magmatism and culminated in emplacement of plutons, passing through basin subsidence.
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1. The map of the Breastworks and cannon emplacements

2. During the next 28 hours, she blasted numerous enemy gun emplacements, blockhouses, and caves.

3. Her guns destroyed gun emplacements, barges, suicide boats, and entombed about 100 enemy troops by sealing the entrance to Malinta Tunnel.

4. After reportedly destroying three gun emplacements and a number of machine gun nests, closing two tunnels, hitting trenches and mortar positions, Toledo retired for the night at 1525.

5. There are multiple types of sites: portals, "Brochureware," content sites, directories, search engines, and ecommerce sites, to name a few.Il y a les types multiples d'emplacements : portails, "Brochureware," emplacements contents, annuaires, moteurs de recherche, et emplacements d'ecommerce, pour appeler quelques uns.Many of the sites back then were garish yet boring, confusing, and not

6. Work to build defences around the 6-mile (10 km) perimeter of Mafeking started on 19 September 1899; the town would eventually be equipped with an extensive network of trenches and gun emplacements.

7. By the end of the day, she had added to her score seven pillboxes, eight gun emplacements and ten stone houses, in which enemy machine guns and snipers had been placed.

8. The M92 "Arblast" Improved Multipurpose Attack Weapon (IMAW) is a lightweight, multifunctional, single man or crew-served, 3½" (88.9 mm) calibre, shoulder-launched, reusable weapon system used against infantry, vehicles, structures, emplacements and fortifications

9. It's not unusual to hear a native Baltimorean say of the lake, “That's where I caught my first fish!” The Boat Lake was created during Civil War grading operations in 1864, when extensive earth-moving work was performed to remove military emplacements and fill ravines.

10. 1 History 2 Details of the fort 3 Gatehouse 4 Counterscarp battery 5 East and south ditches 6 Seaward face and gun emplacements 7 Present condition 8 Image gallery 9 See also 10 External links The fort was built between 1876 and 1888 by the British

11. With their aircraft stripped of armament — to save weight and to keep them from straying into combats — and loaded with enough extra fuel to extend their flying range to four or five hours, pilots took photos of everything from airfields to minefields, from gun emplacements to basic topographical data for overprinted maps.