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INSTALLATION , the See also:action of installing or formally placing some one in occupation of an See also:office or See also:place . The med . See also:Lat. installare meant literally " to place in a seat or See also:stall " (stallum), and the word, as now, was particularly used of the ceremonial See also:induction of an ecclesiastic, such as a See also:canon or See also:prebendary, to his stall in his See also:cathedral See also:choir . Similarly knights of an See also:order of See also:chivalry are ceremonially led to their stalls in the See also:chapel of their order . The See also:term is transferred to any formal See also:establishment in office or position . From a See also:French use of installer and installation, the word is frequently applied in a transferred sense to the fixing in position and making ready for use of a See also:mechanical, particularly See also:electrical, apparatus or plant . |
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