CIRCUMVALLATION

Definition: CIRCUMVALLATION

CIRCUMVALLATION

Noun

1. A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without.

2. The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: CIRCUMVALLATION

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Circumscription	Noun: circumscription, limitation, inclosure; confinement; (restraint); circumvallation; encincture; envelope.
Defense	Safeguard; (safety); balistraria; bunker, screen; (shelter); camouflage; (concealment); fortification; munition, muniment; trench, foxhole; bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment; kila; dike, dyke; parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment; earth work, field-work; fence, wall dead wall, contravallation; paling; (inclosure); palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de frise; abatis, abattis, abbatis; vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp; escarp, counter-scarp; glacis, casemate; vallation, vanfos.
Inclosure	Wall, hedge, hedge row; espalier; fence; (defense); pale, paling, balustrade, rail, railing, quickset hedge, park paling, circumvallation, enceinte, ring fence.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translation: CIRCUMVALLATION

Language		Translations for "CIRCUMVALLATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Italian		circonvallazione (beltway, bypass, relief road, ring road). (various references)

Pig Latin		ircumvallationcay

Romanian		circumvalaţie. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations: CIRCUMVALLATION

Rhyming with "CIRCUMVALLATION"

Words rhyming with "CIRCUMVALLATION" (pronounced 'Cir`cum*val*la"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

Anagrams: CIRCUMVALLATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-i-i-l-l-m-n-o-r-t-u-v"
	-4 letters: acclimation, calculation, calumniator, circulation, illuminator, lacrimation, multiracial, vacillation.
	-5 letters: calculator, canaliculi, clavicular, inculcator, involucral, maculation, malolactic, uncritical, vaccinator, vacillator.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-i-i-l-l-m-n-o-r-t-u-v"
	+1 letter: circumvallations.
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Alternative Orthography: CIRCUMVALLATION

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 49 52 43 55 4D 56 41 4C 4C 41 54 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-. .. .-. -.-. ..- -- ...- .- .-.. .-.. .- - .. --- -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001001 01010010 01000011 01010101 01001101 01010110 01000001 01001100 01001100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#73 &#82 &#67 &#85 &#77 &#86 &#65 &#76 &#76 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0049 0052 0043 0055 004D 0056 0041 004C 004C 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Language	Coverage	Language Translations
Italian	dizionario, definizione, traduzione	italiano, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã
Romanian	dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire	rumeno, român
English	Dictionary, Definition, Translation	inglese, englezesc

CIRCUMVALLATION

Definition: CIRCUMVALLATION