Embarkation vs. Embarcation — Which is Correct Spelling?

Embarkment (sometimes embarcation or embarkation) is the process of loading a passenger ship or an airplane with passengers or military personnel, related to and overlapping with individual boarding on aircraft and ships.

To cause to board a vessel or aircraft

To enlist (a person or persons) or invest (capital) in an enterprise.

To go aboard a vessel or aircraft, as at the start of a journey.

To set out on a venture; commence

The act of embarking.

The process of loading military personnel and vehicles etc into ships or aircraft.

(obsolete) A vessel.

The act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops.

That which is embarked; as, an embarkation of Jesuits.

The act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft