The Collaborative International Dictionary
Castrametation \Cas`tra*me*ta"tion\, n. [F. castram['e]tation, fr. L. castra camp + metari to measure off, fr. meta limit.] (Mil.) The art or act of encamping; the making or laying out of a camp.
Wiktionary
n. planning and construction of a military camp
Usage examples of "castrametation".
There is the same variety of character, the same diversity of story, the same copiousness of incident, the same research into costume, the same display of heraldry, falconry, minstrelsy, scenery, monkery, witchery, devilry, robbery, poachery, piracy, fishery, gipsy-astrology, demonology, architecture, fortification, castrametation, navigation.
A space of ground, large enough to accommodate perhaps thirty tents, according to the Crusaders' rules of castrametation, was partly vacant--because, in ostentation, the knight had demanded ground to the extent of his original retinue--partly occupied by a few miserable huts, hastily constructed of boughs, and covered with palm-leaves.