embarkation

English

Etymology

From French embarcation. By surface analysis, embark +‎ -ation.

Noun

embarkation (countable and uncountable, plural embarkations)

1. The act of embarking.
2. The process of loading military personnel and vehicles etc into ships or aircraft.
3. (obsolete) A vessel.

Synonyms

• embarkment

Derived terms

• disembarkation
• nonembarkation
• reembarkation

Translations

embarking

Chinese: Mandarin: 登船 (dēngchuán), 乘船 (zh) (chéngchuán), 上船 (zh) (shàngchuán) Danish: påstigning, indstigning c, ombordstigning c Finnish: kulkuvälineeseen nouseminen French: embarquement (fr) m German: Einschiffung (de) f Indonesian: embarkasi (id) Japanese: 乗船 (ja) (じょうせん, jōsen) Latin: conscensiō f Maori: ekenga Polish: ambarkacja f (obsolete) Russian: поса́дка (ru) f (posádka), погру́зка (ru) f (pogrúzka)