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placement
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun placement has 3 senses
- placement(n = noun.attribute) arrangement - the spatial property of the way in which something is placed; "the arrangement of the furniture"; "the placement of the chairs" has particulars: formation, columniation, composing, composition, fenestration, balance, proportion, proportionality, alignment, misalignment, ramification, spacing, spatial arrangement, tandem
- placement(n = noun.act) Array - contact established between applicants and prospective employees; "the agency provided placement services" is a kind of contact
- placement(n = noun.act) emplacement, locating, location, position, positioning - the act of putting something in a certain place; Array is a kind of activity
is a kind of position, spatial relation
Derived forms verb place1, verb place10, verb place4, verb place12
has particulars: stratification, apposition, collocation, juxtaposition, interposition, intervention, orientation, planting, implantation, repositioning, set, superposition, fingering, superposition
THESAURUS
placement
abode, accedence, accession, accounting for, allocation, allotment, analysis, answerability, application, appointment, apportionment, area, arrangement, array, arraying, arrogation, ascription, assignation, assignment, assortment, attachment, attribution, bearings, bench mark, blame, cataloging, categorization, charge, classification, codification, collation, collocation, connection with, constitution, coronation, credit, culling, deployment, deposit, deposition, derivation from, disposal, disposition, distribution, district, division, emplacement, employment, engagement, enthronement, etiology, filing, form, formation, formulation, gradation, grading, grouping, hiring, hole, honor, imputation, inauguration, indexing, induction, installation, installment, instatement, investiture, lading, latitude and longitude, lieu, loading, locale, locality, localization, locating, location, locus, marshaling, order, ordering, organization, packing, palaetiology, pigeonholing, pinpoint, pinpointing, place, placing, point, position, positioning, posting, putting, ranging, ranking, rating, reference to, regimentation, region, reposition, responsibility, saddling, screening, selection, sifting, site, situation, situs, sorting, sorting out, spot, spotting, stationing, stead, storage, stowage, stratification, structuring, subdivision, subordination, syntax, tabulation, taking office, taxonomy, triage, typology, whereabout, whereabouts
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