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What does erection mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The act of building or putting up or together of something; construction.
  2. (countable) Anything erected or built.
  3. (physiology) The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.
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The erection crew rented a 365-ton crane used to hoist the truss and steel I-beams into place.
The closure of the gap and the erection of a new flyover have been put together in what seems to be a bureaucratic job lot.
In 1777 Maria Theresa secured the erection of a diocese for the Uniat Greeks, with the Eastern Rite and the Old Slavonic Liturgy.
What is more disturbing is that some indigenous vegetation was indiscriminately destroyed for the erection of the deck.
The corpus spongiosum is a chamber that surrounds the urethra and becomes engorged with blood during an erection.
Symbols of erection, penetration, and prodigious sexual potency and regeneration are everywhere.

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