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Installation vs Deployment - What's the difference?

installation | deployment |

As nouns the difference between installation and deployment

is that installation is an act of installing while deployment is an arrangement or classification of things.

installation

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act of installing.
  • Something installed, especially the whole of a system of machines, apparatus, and accessories, when set up and arranged for practical working, as in electric lighting, transmission of power, etc.
  • A work of installation art.
  • A grouping of facilities that constitute a permanent military base
  • Derived terms

    * installation art ----

    deployment

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An arrangement or classification of things.
  • An implementation, or putting into use, of something.
  • The distribution of military forces prior to battle.
  • * H. L. Scott
  • Deployments which cause the soldier to turn his back to the enemy are not suited to war.
  • (parachuting) the start of something
  • Derived terms

    * software deployment