Usually means: Construction or establishment of structure.
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  1. erection: Merriam-Webster
  2. erection: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. erection: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. erection: Collins English Dictionary
  5. erection: Vocabulary.com
  6. erection: Wordnik
  7. erection: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. erection: Wiktionary
  9. erection: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. erection: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. erection: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. erection: Dictionary.com
  13. erection: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Erection (disambiguation), Erection (film), Erection (nipple), Erection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Erection: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. erection: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. erection: Rhymezone
  18. erection: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. erection: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. erection: FreeDictionary.org
  21. erection: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. erection: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. erection: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. erection: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. erection: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. erection: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. erection: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Erection: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. erection: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  6. erection: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  7. erection: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The act of building or putting up or together of something.
noun:  (countable) Anything erected or built.
noun:  (uncountable or countable, ecclesiastical) Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities.
noun:  (uncountable, physiology) The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.
noun:  (uncountable, physiology, of a penis or clitoris) The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.
noun:  (countable) A penis or clitoris that is erect.

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