How to say "installation" in Japanese

• 導入どうにゅうJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbCovers installation in the sense of introducing a new system, software, or equipment into a company or organization; the emphasis is on adoption and setting up rather than physical fitting.
  いまだにインターネットの導入どうにゅうを検討けんとうしている会社かいしゃがある。↗

  Some companies are still debating whether to get Internet access.
• 装置そうちJLPT N3approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbRefers to a physical device, apparatus, or piece of installed equipment, not the act of installing; choose it when English "installation" names the machine or unit itself.
  この暖房だんぼう装置そうちは石油せきゆを燃料ねんりょうとする。↗

  This heating system burns oil.
• 設備せつびJLPT N3approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbCovers installation as facilities or fitted equipment in a building, plant, or site — the installed apparatus as a whole rather than the act of installing it.
  諸しょ設備せつびの費用ひようは払はらっていただきます。↗

  You have to pay for utilities.
• 安置あんちCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbA narrow term: it covers installation only in the sense of enshrining or placing an image, and is not the word for installing equipment or software.
  指導者しどうしゃが死しんだ時とき、人々ひとびとは彼かれの死体したいを大おおきな墓はかに安置あんちした。↗

  When their leader died, they placed his body in a large tomb.
• 据え付けすえつけCommon
  nounThe act of installing, fitting, or mounting equipment in place; use it for having a machine or appliance physically set up, rather than for adopting a system.

Choose 導入 for introducing or setting up software or systems, 「据え付け」 for physically fitting equipment, 装置 and 設備 for installations as devices or facilities rather than acts, and 安置 only for enshrining an image.

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• 導入どうにゅうintroduction
• 装置そうちequipment
• 設備せつびequipment
• 安置あんちenshrinement
• 据え付けすえつけinstallation
• 就任しゅうにんassumption (of office)
• インストールinstallation (esp. software)
• 実装じっそうimplementation (e.g. of a feature)
• 取り付けとりつけinstallation
• セットアップ(initial) setup
• インスタレーションinstallation
• 取り付け工事とりつけこうじinstallation
• インストレーションinstallation
• インスコinstallation (of software)
• しつらえequipment
• しつらいequipment
• 冊立さくりつimperial investiture
• 設置せっちinstallation (of a machine or equipment)
• フィッティングfitting
• インストinstallation (esp. software)