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