platoon

Etymology
From obsolete, variant of , from +. . Compare.

Noun

 * 1)  A unit of thirty to forty soldiers typically commanded by a lieutenant and forming part of a company.
 * 2) A group of self-driving vehicles travelling in a close convoy and communicating electronically with each other.
 * 3)  A group of children in the platoon grouping education system.
 * 1)  A group of children in the platoon grouping education system.

Translations

 * Arabic: فَصِيلَة عَسْكَرِيَّة,
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: taqım, tağım, vzvod
 * Belarusian: узво́д
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: взвод
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 排, 分隊
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto: plotono
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, , Sanitätszug
 * Hebrew: מַחְלָקָה
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: buíon
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: взвод
 * Khmer: កងអនុសេនាតូច
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latvian: vads
 * Lithuanian: būrys
 * Macedonian: вод, чета
 * Malay: platun
 * Maori: parahūnu, wāhanga toru o te kamupene, paratunu
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: во̑д
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: čata
 * Slovene: vod
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: таҳм
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: чота́, взвод
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To alternate starts with a teammate of opposite handedness, depending on the handedness of the opposing pitcher
 * Taylor has been hitting poorly against left-handers, and Morgan has been hitting poorly against right-handers, so they will platoon.
 * 1)  To specialize in a particular position or playing style.
 * 2) Of self-driving vehicles: to travel in a close convoy, each vehicle communicating electronically with the others.
 * 1) Of self-driving vehicles: to travel in a close convoy, each vehicle communicating electronically with the others.