Other forms: implementations
Implementation is the putting of a plan into actual practice. Poor implementation, the implementation phase, implementation costs.
It is where most policies and projects actually fail, since a plan that works on paper still has to be carried out by people. In software it means the working code as against the specification.
1nounimplementationThe putting of a plan into actual practice.
“The plan looked good on paper, but its implementation was a disaster.”
implementation is a carrying out.
From implement, from Latin implere, to fill up, plus -ation.
Proto-Indo-European
*pleh₁-
Latin
implēmentum — a filling up
English
implement
English, today
implementation
From implement + -ation. implement Latin implēmentum (“a filling up”), from Latin impleō (“to fill up”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA