The phrase "as a fortification" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing something that serves as a defense or protection, often in a metaphorical or literal context.
Example: "The new policy was implemented as a fortification against potential data breaches."
Alternatives: "as a safeguard" or "as a defense mechanism".
Think of them as a fortification: a password-plus.
In the end, xenophobia is a vulnerability masquerading as a fortification.
The disclosure itself acts as a fortification of sorts, they suggest.
Thus, the Great Wall gradually lost its significance as a fortification, and there was no need for repairs or additions.
Military historians suggest that the wall wasn't especially well-calibrated — to either the contours of its place or the tactics of its time — as a fortification.
Dating from the 13th century, the building has been used as a fortification, a law court and a jail, and is now a pretty, quirky and - as the name suggests - romantic hotel with 50 individually styled rooms.
37 It is beyond the goal of this article to make the maize processing scale cut-off for a fortification program, as well as to discuss bioavailability of nutrients remaining after different processes of corn milling.
Rapidly training himself in that most primal and sophisticated of arts – the art of building shelters – Crusoe constructs first a double-layered tent and then, in time, a "fortification" as stout and impermeable as he can make it.
These included items too large to be produced or managed by a single person alone, such as a large double-hulled canoe or a fishing net several hundred feet in length, as well as facilities and land intended directly for community use, such as a ceremonial ground, a fortification, or a large breadfruit-paste storage pit.
The dyke was not so much a fortification as a demarcation line, consisting as it did of a plain bank (sometimes 60 feet [18 metres] high) and a ditch (12 ft deep) facing Wales.
The tower was built by the Genoese traders in 1349 as a watchtower and a fortification for their walled enclave.
