emplacement

One of the first proposed uses of torpedoes was coastal defense, with the torpedoes launched either from emplacements directly on the water’s edge, or from floating platforms just off-shore.

It’s often mentioned as one of the possible causes behind this big dinosaur extinction — the plume was responsible for these huge eruptions and the emplacement of these really large volumes of igneous rocks.

The three fugitive slaves, before their escape, had been helping build a Confederate gun emplacement.

The famous Cave Canem, too, the only mosaic that remains intact, has been twice removed from its original emplacement.

Every trench, redoubt, and dug-out; every hedge and ditch was recorded, and every gun emplacement shown.

Nobody cared about left-hand Gun Hill; he was only a 47 howitzer; every glass was clamped on the big yellow emplacement.

In the meantime he has had his gun's name, "Lady Ellen," neatly carved on a stone and put up on his emplacement.

Mattia did not show himself until the soldiers began preparing an emplacement for their gun.