Other forms: erections
An erection is the putting up of a structure. The erection of a monument, during erection, erection costs.
This is the building sense, used on site and in contracts for the process of raising a frame. The word also has an anatomical sense, which is the one most people meet first, and that overlap makes the building sense sound comic outside the trade.
1nounerectionThe putting up of a structure.
“Workers began the erection of the steel frame for the new office tower.”
erection is a building process.
Latin erectio comes from erigere, to raise up — e, out, plus regere, to direct or keep straight.
Latin
ērectiō
English, today
erection
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Borrowed from Latin ērectiō, noun of action from perfect passive participle ērectus, from verb erigō, from prefix ē- (“out of”) + regō, + action suffix -iō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA