In civil engineering, embankment (from the Italian terrapieno, terra 'earth' and pieno 'full') is called the earth with which a piece of land is filled to raise its level and form a plane "Plane (geometry)") of adequate support to carry out a work.[1]​.

The parts of a road embankment are:[2]​.

The tasks necessary for the execution of embankments, with high-performance machinery, are the following:

In Spain, for the quality control of an embankment, that is, to verify that its quality is correct, it must comply with the regulations of the General Technical Prescription Specifications").[4]​.

In archeology, an embankment is called one of the earthworks "Earth movement (archaeology)") carried out by man to create unevenness in the terrain for different engineering purposes.