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phalanx
/ˈfeɪˌlæŋks/
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What does phalanx mean?
noun
- A large group of people, animals or things, compact or closely massed, or tightly knit and united in common purpose.
- One of the bones of the finger or toe.
- A bundle of stamens, in diadelphous and polyadelphous flowers.
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proper noun
- The brand name of a radar-controlled rapid fire 20mm Gatling-type machine gun, the Phalanx CIWS (pronounced see-wiz), deployed on U.S. Navy ships as a last line of defense against antiship cruise missiles.
noun
- (historical) An ancient Greek and Macedonian military unit that consisted of several ranks and files (lines) of soldiers in close array with joined shields and long spears.
- (historical) A Fourierite utopian community; a phalanstery.
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The universal Church was arrayed against it, and in front of the vast phalanx stood, to a man, the fathers.
While the horse were thus dangerously engaged, the Macedonian phalanx passed the river, and the foot on each side advanced to fight.
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What I saw was a solid phalanx of armed men between myself and a dais supporting a great bench of carved sorapus wood.
Action.--This muscle flexes the second phalanx on the first, the first on the metacarpus, and the entire foot on the forearm.
The soft and fleshy cushion which here covered the 2d phalanx was terminated by a small, blackish nail, like a grain of spur rye.