"emplacement" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to refer to the position of something within a certain area, such as a building or other structure. For example, you could say: "The emplacement of the new playground is in the north corner of the park."
Following a survey of the poverty and militarism of North Korea, he concludes:This, then, is the country of the supreme leader and his funny hair and the picture of him in the artillery emplacement pondering which nations to strike with his nuclear missiles.
The attempted subduction of those margins resulted in the emplacement of vast portions of the Neo-Tethyan ocean floor on top of those margins in the form of giant ophiolite sheets, such as the Semail Nappe in Oman.
These groupings of deposits occur because deposit-forming processes, such as the emplacement of magma bodies and the formation of sedimentary basins, are themselves controlled by larger processes that shape the face of the Earth.
One mountain-building event, known as the Nevadan orogeny, resulted in the emplacement of massive igneous and metamorphic rocks from Alaska to Baja California.
The dating of emplacement of vast suites of basaltic magma, known as basaltic dike swarms, is consistent with the ages of continental rifting, suggesting that mantle upwelling was an important contributor to the rifting process.
Magnetic minerals in rocks (and in articles of fired clay) provide the record of ancient change, for they took on the magnetic field existing at the time of their creation or emplacement.
They were responsible for thousands of military and civilian deaths in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where insurgents proved particularly adept at hiding IEDs through skillful emplacement and effective camouflage.
A COUNCIL worker loads sorted paper and cardboard from an "eco-emplacement" into a green dumper truck.
A mute groundscraper slashed with gun-emplacement windows, you can't help feeling 5 Broadgate is what the City deserves.
Many of the spots chosen for Peace Camp – including Dunstanburgh Castle, built in the 14th century and set about with gun emplacements and a minefield in the second world war – have a history of militarisation.
On June 23rd Israeli jets blasted at least nine Syrian army emplacements in retaliation for what Israeli spokesmen described as the targeting of a car carrying Israeli citizens in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, killing one passenger.The fighting also spilled into Lebanon, not for the first time during Syria's three years of warfare.
