chevron

Etymology
From, from , the mark so called because it looks like rafters of a shallow roof, from , from , the likely connection between goats and rafters being the animal's horns.

Noun

 * 1) A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve.
 * 2)  A wide inverted V placed on a shield.
 * 3)  One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles.
 * 4) * 2009, Jamie Dunn, Truckie has a point, Sunshine Coast Daily Online, June 13, 2009.
 * I told you that in fact they were called chevrons and it was an exercise by the transport department to teach us to stay two chevrons behind the car in front.
 * 1) 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 “ ” ”.
 * 2) An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.
 * 3)  A, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.
 * 4) * 1976, Stephen J. Lieberman, The Sumerian Loanwords in Old-Babylonian Akkadian (Harvard Semitic Studies, issue 22; published by Scholars Press for Harvard Semitic Museum), page 66
 * The symbol ř (“r” with a chevron) is used for a phoneme which sounds like Czech ř (as in Dvořák), i.e. a voiced alveolar flap. The presence of the chevron has no effect on the index numbers used in transliteration; cf. 2.058.
 * 1) A wedge-shaped sediment deposit observed on coastlines and continental interiors around the world.
 * The symbol ř (“r” with a chevron) is used for a phoneme which sounds like Czech ř (as in Dvořák), i.e. a voiced alveolar flap. The presence of the chevron has no effect on the index numbers used in transliteration; cf. 2.058.
 * 1) A wedge-shaped sediment deposit observed on coastlines and continental interiors around the world.

Usage notes

 * In heraldry, broken chevrons are represented and described in blazon in a variety of ways: see examples at.

Translations

 * Belarusian: шаўро́н
 * Bulgarian: нашивка на ръкава
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 柴
 * Finnish: ;
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: katonai rangjelzés
 * Italian:, , segno diacritico a V,
 * Maori: pere tapaono, kaokao, maihi
 * Polish: szewron
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: sardineta
 * Ukrainian: шевро́н


 * Catalan: xebró
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: стропило
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish: chebrón, cabrio
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: turvavälimerkintä
 * Hungarian: követési távolság jelzése
 * Italian: frecce segnaletiche

Verb

 * 1) To form or be formed into chevrons
 * 2) * 1963, Lucien Victor Gewiss, "Process and Devices for Chevroning Pliable Sheet Material," US Patent 3397261, page 14:
 * ...the sheet to be chevroned locks itself into the furrow.

Etymology
, from, from , cf. also. Ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1) rafter