implementation
Pluralimplementations (some meanings)
- 1The process of turning an idea into a working reality, meaning the building stage rather than the design stage.
The implementation of the policy required training hundreds of staff.
Engineers focus on implementation once the design has been approved.
Similarexecution, realization, application, enactment
- 2The finished product, system, or device that results from carrying out a plan or design.
The new implementation handled twice the traffic of the old system.
Several competing implementations of the standard already exist on the market.
Note
Engineers use the word for the thing built, not the act of building: a circuit, device or system that realizes a design. Because one specification can be met in many ways, the word takes an article and a plural here (his implementation, rival implementations), while the process of building usually stands bare, as in moving on to implementation. An implementation is always judged against the specification it satisfies.
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Origin
Formed from "implement" combined with the suffix "-ation."