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centuriation

centuriation noun: a method of land measurement used in Ancient Rome, characterised by the regular layout of a square grid traced using surveyors' instruments.

Noun

centuriation (uncountable)

  1. A method of land measurement used in Ancient Rome, characterised by the regular layout of a square grid traced using surveyors' instruments.
    • One particularly aggressive proponent of centuriation was Emperor Septimius Severus, who ruled from A.D. 192 to 211 and whose 400,000-man army was spread across an empire of 70 million people, from the Atlantic to the eastern shores of the Black Sea and from northern England to southern Egypt.2015 November 4, Beppe Severgnini, “Let Refugees Settle Italy’s Empty Spaces”, in New York Times

Origin of centuriation

Learned borrowing from Latin centuriātiō.

Questions about centuriation

What does centuriation mean?
Centuriation means a method of land measurement used in Ancient Rome, characterised by the regular layout of a square grid traced using surveyors' instruments.
What part of speech is centuriation?
Centuriation is a noun.

Words near centuriation in the dictionary

  1. centurial
  2. centuriate
  3. centuriated
  4. centuriates
  5. centuriating
  6. centuriation
  7. centuriator
  8. centuriators
  9. centuried
  10. centuries
  11. centuries-long

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