castellation

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English

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Noun

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castellation (countable and uncountable, plural castellations)

  1. (uncountable) The act or process of making a building into a castle.
  2. (uncountable) The addition of battlements to a building, as for example when a feudal manor house needed fortification against border-raider attacks.
  3. (countable) Any of a set of slots or grooves in an object, often machined into a metal part, as for example on a castellated nut.

Coordinate terms

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  • crenellation (overlaps synonymously in the architectural sense; coordinate in the machinery sense, whereas the same concept is invoked but the words are used in idiomatically non-interchangeable ways, as with crenellated flashlight bezels but castellated nuts)
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