castrametationn.
/ˌkastrəmɪˈteɪʃən/ 1. The art or science of laying out a camp.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > [noun] > encamping > art of laying out camp
castrametation1686
gromatics1873
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. x. 404 Choul's discourse of the Castrametation of the Romans.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. i. 17 Discussion concerning urns,..votive altars, Roman camps, and the rules of castrametation.
1842 W. Ramsay in Smith's Gr. & Rom. Antiq. (1848) 244/2 A technical memoir on the art of castrametation.
2. concrete. The outline of a camp traced out (obsolete).
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society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > [noun] > encamping > art of laying out camp > outline of camp
castrametation1686
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. x. 406 That entrenchment..has been one of these Roman Castrametations.
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