erectionnoun/ɪˈɹɛkʃən/

• 1

  The act of building or putting up or together of something.

• 2

  Anything erected or built.

  • The Empire State Building was once the world's tallest erection.
  • If any serious number of deck erections have been left unfaired, these percentages will be too low.
• 3

  ecclesiasticallifestylereligionFormal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities.

  • There is some obscurity attaching to the only other one of those alleged erections of parishes, the case of Foot Dee, near Aberdeen.
  • If the erection of a society is made with pontifical authority, then the society is one of pontifical legal status from its inception.
• 4

  medicinephysiologysciencesThe physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.

  • I think that the case also demonstrates some singular aspects of the penis as a narrator of tales, specifically the way in which the erection of a penis falls outside a man's conscious control and therefore threatens a carefully constructed master legal narrative in which bodily self-control graphically represents the self-government contemplated by a democratic legal society.
  • There are men who say they cannot bear to show themselves naked before women unless in a state of erection; and indeed through erection the flesh becomes activity, potency, […]
• 5

  medicinephysiologysciencesThe state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.

  • […] but our experienc'd matron very soon, by chafing it with her hands, brought it to swell to that size and erection I had before seen it up to.
  • Older men typically require longer periods of time to achieve erection and reach orgasm.
• 6

  A penis or clitoris that is erect.

  • He placed his newspaper on his lap to hide his erection.
  • Nothing is more short-lived than the erection; like the crocus of spring, it is there for a moment, and then it is gone; one moment the penis is small, soft, and insignificant, and then in the next it is hard, rigid, and three and four times its previous size.