chevron

1 V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service; "they earned their stripes in Kuwait" [syn: stripe, stripes, grade insignia]

2 an inverted V-shaped charge

English

Noun

1. a V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve
2. In heraldry, a wide inverted V placed on a shield.
3. In the context of "mostly|UK": V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles

Verb

1. to form or be formed into chevrons
   • 1963, Lucien Victor Gewiss, "Process and Devices for Chevroning Pliable Sheet Material," US Patent 3397261 http://www.google.com/patents?id=XflXAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA11-IA4, page 14:

   "...the sheet to be chevroned locks itself into the furrow."

   • 1983, Allen Sillitoe, The Lost Flying Boat, ISBN 0246122366, page 118:

   "Bull fixed the claw under a batten, strained like a sailor at the capstan, shirt off, arms chevroned by elaborate tattoos"

   • 2003, Felice Picano, A House on the Ocean, a House on the Bay, ISBN 1560234407, page 55:

   "Earlier, in glaring winter daylight, I'd first noticed thin lines chevroning off the edge of each eye into the taut skin of his cheeks..."

Chevron may refer to:

• The general shape of a V character, or a triangular shape pointing up or more often, down.
• The punctuation mark seen in Chinese, Korean and Japanese languages (︾), used to enclose vertically-written titles, acting as quotation mark. See Bracket.
• Chevron (insignia), a V-shaped pattern in insignia, heraldry, flag design, road signs, architecture and construction
• Chevron (land form), a wedge-shaped sediment deposit composed of material displaced from the ocean floor onto land by a tsunami.
• Chevron Corporation, a petrochemical company.
• Chevron Cars Ltd, a constructor of racing cars.
• Phantom Regiment: The Chevron is the symbol for the Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps
• Chevron (artist), breakcore artist Jonathan Valentine from Blackpool, UK
• Chevron (anatomy), a series of bones on the underside of the tail of reptiles
• Chevron bead, a particular style of bead also known as Rosetta or star beads.
• Chevron (geology), a wedge-shaped stratum fold
• Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., a United States Supreme Court case
• One way of representing the Hebrew language pronunciation for the city of Hebron
• Chevron (Stargate), a component of a Stargate in the science fiction film and series Stargate
• Chevron plot, a way of representing protein folding kinetic data
• Chevrons (book), a novel by Leonard H. Nason. Copyrighted 1926, it takes place during the Great War.
• Chevron (moth), Eulithis testata, a moth.

See also

• Chevon, goat meat

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