Embankment

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Embankment may refer to:

• A levee, an artificial bank raised above the immediately surrounding land to redirect or prevent flooding by a river, lake or sea
• Embankment (transportation), a raised bank to carry a road, railway, or canal across a low-lying or wet area
• Embankment dam, a dam made of mounded earth and rock
• Land reclamation along river banks, usually marked by roads and walkways running along it, parallel to the river, as in:
  • The Thames Embankment along the north side of the Thames River in London, England
    • The Victoria Embankment contained within the Thames Embankments
    • The Chelsea Embankment contained within the Thames Embankment
  • The Albert Embankment along the south side of the Thames River in London, England
  • The Neva embankments along the Neva River in Saint Petersburg, Russia
• Embankment tube station, a station on the London Underground
• "Embankment", a work by artist Rachel Whiteread
• Embankment machine (The War of the Worlds), one of the fictional machines used by the Martians in the H. G. Wells' 1898 science fiction novel