"castellation" meaning in All languages combined

See castellation on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: castellations [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} castellation (countable and uncountable, plural castellations)
  1. (uncountable) The act or process of making a building into a castle. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-castellation-en-noun-GOuE5aID Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 36 33
  2. (uncountable) The addition of battlements to a building, as for example when a feudal manor house needed fortification against border-raider attacks. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-castellation-en-noun-5FEtc4mp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 36 33
  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. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-castellation-en-noun-Sx7PKy1F Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 36 33
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: castellate, licence to crenellate Coordinate_terms: crenellation (english: 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 bezel but castellated nut)

Inflected forms

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