installing

Verb

install (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
   • 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
   1. (transitive) 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.
      • I haven't installed the new operating system yet because of all the bugs.
2. (transitive) To admit formally into an office, rank or position.
   • He was installed as Chancellor of the University.

   Synonyms:

   seat, instate

3. (reflexive, sometimes, transitive) To establish or settle in.
   • I installed myself in my usual chair by the fire.

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