deploy

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From French déployer (“to unroll, unfold”), from Old French desployer , from Medieval Latin displicare (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicare (“to fold”).

deploy (third-person singular simple present deploys, present participle deploying, simple past and past participle deployed)

(transitive) To prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use.

The word deploy has roots as a military term, used to describe the placement of equipment and troops in a battlefield.

"Deploy two units of infantry along the enemy's flank," the general ordered.
(intransitive) To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.

He waited tensely for his parachute to deploy.
(computing) to install, test and implement a computer system or application. The term can be used to refer to any installation and testing, such as setting up a new network in an enterprise, to installing a server farm, to implementing a new application over a distributed computing network. [1]

The process for the deployment scenario includes: building a master installation of the operating system, creating its image and deploying the image onto a destination computer.

To prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use

To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use