chevron
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɛvɹən/
The English word “chevron” has 10 meanings listed here.
noun
- A wide inverted V placed on a shield.
- Anything V-shaped similarly to the classic chevron shape.
- A group of birds in flight, when flying in a V formation, as in cranes, ducks, geese, gulls, pelicans and swans.
- One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles.
- A wedge-shaped sediment deposit observed on coastlines and continental interiors around the world.
- Synonym of arrowhead (“horse jump obstacle”).
- A guillemet, either of the punctuation marks “«” or “»”, used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as ““” and “””.
- An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.
- A háček, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.
verb
- To form or be formed into chevrons
Etymology
From Middle English cheveroun, from Old French chevron, the mark so called because it looks like rafters of a shallow roof, from Vulgar Latin *capriō, from Latin caper (“goat”), the likely connection between goats and rafters being the animal's horns.
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