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Echelon   /ˈɛʃəlˌɑn/   Listen
Echelon

noun
1.
A body of troops arranged in a line.
2.
A diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset.





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"Echelon" Quotes from Famous Books



... we put up two duck, who had been swimming there peacefully with the shells flying over their heads every half minute for hours. When we reached the left bank we marched as if to reinforce our right flank. Presently the Brigadier made us line out into echelon of companies in line in single rank, so that from a distance we looked like a brigade, instead of three companies. About 4 we came up to a howitzer battery and lay down about ...
— Letters from Mesopotamia • Robert Palmer


Words linked to "Echelon" :   diffraction grating, war machine, grating, force, military group, armed services, military machine, military, military force, military unit, armed forces


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