'Fortification' definitions:
Definition of 'fortification'
(from WordNet)
noun
Defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it [syn: fortification, munition]
noun
The art or science of strengthening defenses
noun
The addition of an ingredient for the purpose of enrichment (as the addition of alcohol to wine or the addition of vitamins to food)
Definition of 'Fortification'
From: GCIDE
- Fortification \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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Fortification agate, Scotch pebble.
- Syn: Fortress; citadel; bulwark. See Fortress. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fortification'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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