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install

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈstɔːl/

The English word “install” has 6 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To connect, set up or prepare something for use
  2. 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.
  3. To admit formally into an office, rank or position.
  4. To establish or settle in.

noun

  1. An installation: the process of installing a software application.
  2. An installation: a software application that has been installed.

Etymology

From Middle English installen, from Old French installer, from Medieval Latin īnstallō (“to install, put in place, establish”), from in- + stallum (“stall”), from Frankish *stall (“stall, position, place”), from Proto-Germanic *stallaz (“place, position”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel-, *stAlǝn-, *stAlǝm- (“stem, trunk”). Cognate with Old High German stal (“location, stall”), Old English steall…

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