Definition of "install"

install

/ɪnˈstɔːl/

verb
third-person singular simple present installs, present participle installing, simple past and past participle installed
1. (transitive) To connect, set up or prepare something for use
  Quotations
  Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
  2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30
  Each TBM installs two-metre-wide rings made up of seven precast concrete segments produced on-site. Each ring takes approximately 45 minutes to one hour to install.
  2021 July 14, Paul Stephen, “A portal into the future”, in RAIL, number 935, page 52. photo caption
  1. (transitive, computing) To transfer software onto a device's permanent storage and put it in a state where it is ready to be run when needed, usually decompressing it if necessary and performing any necessary pre-first-run configuration.
2. (transitive) To admit formally into an office, rank or position.
  Quotations
  My husband rented a small, comfortable house, and I was installed as its mistress.
  1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 12
3. (transitive) To establish or settle in.
noun
plural installs
1. (computing) Installer. A software utility that installs an application.
2. (informal) An installation. (Usage originated as a truncated form of the word installation.)

Definition of "install"

install

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