erection

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

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.

Formal 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.

The 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, […]

The 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.