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Fortification

Fortification Meaning & Definition
Fortification Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Fortification?

[n] the addition of an ingredient for the purpose of enrichment (as the addition of alcohol to wine or the addition of vitamins to food)
[n] defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it
[n] the art or science of strengthening defenses

Synonyms | Synonyms for Fortification: munition

Related Terms | Find terms related to Fortification: abatis | advanced work | affirmation | attestation | authentication | backing | backing up | balistraria | bank | banquette | barbed-wire entanglement | barbican | barricade | barrier | bartizan | bastion | battlement | bearing out | bolstering | breastwork | bulwark | buttressing | case hardening | casemate | certification | cheval-de-frise | circumstantiation | circumvallation | confirmation | contravallation | corroboration | corroboratory evidence | counterscarp | curtain | demibastion | dike | documentation | drawbridge | earthwork | enclosure | enrichment | entanglement | escarp | escarpment | fence | fieldwork | fortalice | glacis | hardening | invigoration | loophole | lunette | machicolation | mantelet | merlon | mound | outwork | palisade | parados | parapet | portcullis | postern gate | proof | proving | proving out | rampart | ratification | ravelin | redan | redoubt | refreshment | reinforcement | reinvigoration | restoration | restrengthening | revivification | sally port | scarp | sconce | stockade | strengthening | substantiation | support | supporting evidence | tempering | tenaille | undergirding | validation | vallation | vallum | verification | vitaminization | work

See Also | art | artistry | bastion | breastwork | bulwark | bunker | castle | defence | defense | defensive structure | defilade | dugout | enrichment | entrenchment | escarp | escarpment | fieldwork | intrenchment | lunette | Maginot Line | palisade | parapet | protective embankment | prowess | rampart | scarp | Siegfried line | stockade | wall

Fortification In Webster's Dictionary

\For`ti*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. fortificatio : cf. F. fortification.] 1. The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy. 2. That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle. {Fortification agate}, Scotch pebble. Syn: Fortress; citadel; bulwark. See {Fortress}.

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