Usually means: Notched battlements for defensive architecture.
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  1. crenellations: Merriam-Webster
  2. crenellations: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crenellations: Collins English Dictionary
  4. crenellations: Vocabulary.com
  5. crenellations: Wordnik
  6. crenellations: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. crenellations: Wiktionary
  8. Crenellations: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. crenellations: TheFreeDictionary.com

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(Note: See crenellation as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (crenellation)

noun:  (countable, uncountable) A pattern along the top of a parapet (fortified wall), most often in the form of multiple, regular, rectangular spaces in the top of the wall, through which arrows or other weaponry may be shot, especially as used in medieval European architecture.
noun:  (uncountable) The act of crenellating; adding a top row that looks like the top of a medieval castle.
noun:  (countable) Any of a series of notches with fancied resemblance to such battlements, as for example around the bezel of a flashlight.
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