English Dictionary

centuriation

noun

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

Centuriation was a method of land measurement used in Ancient Rome.

意味（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.