English > placement: 3 senses > noun 3, act| Meaning | The act of putting something in a certain place. |
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| Synonyms | location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement |
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| Narrower | fingering | The placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument |
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| implantation | The act of planting or setting in the ground |
| interposition, intervention | The act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others |
| juxtaposition, apposition, collocation | The act of positioning close together (or side by side) |
| orientation | The act of orienting / orienting |
| planting | The act of fixing firmly in place |
| repositioning | The act of placing in a new position |
| set | The act of putting something in position |
| stratification | The placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination |
| superposition | The placement of one thing on top of another |
| superposition | (geometry) the placement of one object ideally in the position of another one in order to show that the two coincide |
| Broader | activity | Any specific behavior |
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| Spanish | colocación, emplazamiento, lugar, posicionamiento, posición, situación, ubicación |
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| Catalan | col·locació, emplaçament, lloc, posició, posicionament, ubicació |
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