Definition of "install"

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

My husband rented a small, comfortable house, and I was installed as its mistress.

1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 12