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/ˈʃɛvɹɑn/
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What does chevron mean?
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.
More meanings (7)
noun
- 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.
- (informal) A háček, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.
verb
- To form or be formed into chevrons
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈʃɛvɹɑn/
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In his hand he held a blue cricket-cap with a white chevron on the peak.
I can't recollect the least morsel of a fess or chevron of the Boynets: they did not happen to enter into any extinct genealogy for whose welfare I interest myself.