Crossword clues for echelon
echelon
- Military unit
- Management level
- Flight formation
- Troop formation
- Troops arranged in a line
- Organizational level
- Military formation
- Battlefield formation
- Command level
- Corporate level
- Authority level
- Stepped formation
- Rank — status
- Organizational tier
- Organizational rank
- Organization level
- Line of riders staggered for maximum protection from the wind
- Level or rank
- Level in an organisation
- French for "rung"
- Corporate grade
- Body of troops arranged in a line
- Level of authority
- Level of command
- Position
- Rank in an organization
- French loanword that literally means "rung on a ladder"
- Tier
- A body of troops arranged in a line
- A diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset
- Level of importance
- Plane formation
- Level of responsibility
- Musk worn by revolutionary is rank
- European male student working in pursuit of college grade
- English clubs look into female division
- False clone claiming ambassador's rank
- Level or rank in a group
- Rung when away from company briefly by city chap
- Rank slipping on leech!
- Rank outsiders of Eindhoven holding Chelsea - missing main opportunity to lead
- Rank - status
- Part of the creche longs for rank
- Helen & Co changed formation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Echelon \Ech"e*lon\, v. t. (Mil.) To place in echelon; to station divisions of troops in echelon.
Echelon \Ech"e*lon\ ([e^]sh"e*l[o^]n), n. [F., fr. ['e]chelle ladder, fr. L. scala.]
(Mil.) An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance.
--Upton (Tactics).-
(Naval) An arrangement of a fleet in a wedge or V form.
--Encyc. Dict.Echelon lens (Optics), a large lens constructed in several parts or layers, extending in a succession of annular rings beyond the central lens; -- used in lighthouses.
Echelon \Ech"e*lon\, v. i. To take position in echelon.
Change direction to the left, echelon by battalion from
the right.
--Upton
(Tactics).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1796, echellon, "step-like arrangement of troops," from French échelon "level, echelon," literally "rung of a ladder," from Old French eschelon, from eschiele "ladder," from Late Latin scala "stair, slope," from Latin scalae (plural) "ladder, steps," from PIE *skand- "to spring, leap" (see scan (v.)). Sense of "level, subdivision" is from World War I.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A level or rank in an organization, profession, or society. 2 (context military English) A formation of troops, ships, etc. in diagonal parallel rows. vb. To form troops into an echelon.
WordNet
n. a body of troops arranged in a line
a diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset
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Wikipedia
Echelon may refer to:
- A level or rank in an organization, profession, or society
- Echelon formation, a military hierarchical formation, also used to describe the migratory patterns of birds
- ECHELON, a worldwide electronic intelligence-gathering operation, within the UKUSA Agreement, mainly for industry espionage
- Echelon parking, a way of arranging parked cars
- Echelon, New Jersey
Echelon is a 3-D science fiction flight simulator video game designed by Russian developers MADIA. It involves flying futuristic fighters in combat scenarios. The game can be played locally or on a local area network with up to 32 players. The Russian version of the game is called "Шторм" ("Storm"). The plot of the first-person shooter game Operation: Matriarchy (also developed by MADIA) takes place in the same general universe as Echelon.
Echelon was nominated as "Sci-Fi Simulation Game of the Year" by GameSpot, 2001.
In 2002 a sequel, Echelon: Wind Warriors, was released.
Echelon is a turn-based, customizable World War II strategy card game from Echelon Games 1.
Category:Dedicated deck card games
Echelon is a warez group which specializes in the illegal release and distribution of copyrighted console games, such as Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 ISO images. They also created demos on both platforms.
Between September 4, 2000 to April 30, 2002, Echelon's Dreamcast division released 188 game titles and 34 other various fixes, tutorials, trainers, and loaders.
On December 19, 2001, Echelon released Final Fantasy X as their first of several hundred PlayStation 2 titles. As of 2007, Echelon continues to release games for the PS2 platform.
In 2004, Echelon was named as one of six groups targeted as part of Operation Fastlink by the United States Department of Justice.
On November 15, 2005, Echelon's Dragon Quest VIII USA PS2 nfo file stated that Echelon was indeed Kalisto: We errr Kalisto released it on November 2nd 2001 as Dragon_Warrior_VII_USA_PS1-KALISTO, referring to the previous game in the series and the nfo ended with -- the dragon warrior of KALiSTO.
Echelon were a four-piece band hailing from Essex, England.
Usage examples of "echelon".
As they passed his hiding place within the dense forest thicket, Ali Baba further heard the sounds of coarse laughter and the sort of language one did not generally associate with the upper echelons of polite society.
Thus, the assault echelons, after debarking at low water, had to tramp across a wet beach planted with booby-trapped obstacles.
Now the entire upper echelon of Heritage Insurance Company Incorporated has read the file or knows what it says and we have an office in Irian Jaya, so that is a lot of people.
At Division Headquarters two miles in the rear, a liaison captain with the G3 section boldly concluded that it was just a ruse to get rear echelon soldiers to go to the front lines where they would be greeted by the raucous razzberries of the infantrymen and maybe an unfriendly sniper bullet or two.
A flying wolf pack that rallied by twos and formed in flights of three, three flights in echelon, three squadrons in a staggered vee.
The name of this young man was Baron Alexander Yegorovich Wrangel, and he belonged to one of those Russian-German aristocratic families of Baltic origin which, under Nicholas I, staffed the higher echelons of the bureaucracy and the Army and continued to do so, to a large extent, under Alexander II as well.
That the cons in here were basically the top echelon of the criminal world, looked up to by everyone in prison as real villains, blaggers and the like.
Many of the individual motes themselves detonated in a clustering hyperspherical storm of lethal sparks, followed sequentially by another and another echelon of explosions erupting amongst the wave of ships in a layered hierarchy of destruction.
During a brief descent -- with a double stroke of the bell, the trammer announces the pit bottom, where lies the fill level and hence also the hope that hell may be exhausted and ascent decided upon -- Matern, wedged into the cage between director and foreman with dog, is informed that the mobile scarecrow fragments he has just seen have recently been in great demand, especially in the Argentine and in Canada, where the wide expanse of the wheatfields necessitates echeloned scarecrows.
I could use my Unattached authority to keep the truth secret from lower echelons and tell her nothing except that Keith had irrevocably died under circumstances which forced us to shut off this period to time traffic.
There was no longer any hope of a reconciliation with Great Britain: The interview at Erfurt having been determined on, the Emperor, who had returned from Bayonne to Paris, again left the capital about the end of September, and arrived at Metz without stopping, except for the purpose of reviewing the regiments which were echeloned on his route, and which were on their march from the Grand Army to Spain.
International Institute for Strategic Studies is nothing more than a higher echelon opinion-maker as defined by Lippmann and Bernays.
Through the good offices of some of their cultivated friends in the higher Army echelons at Semipalatinsk, he was given permission to live by himself in town.
The reports spoke of flamethrowers and dug-in T-34 positions, of deep echelons of unyielding defenders and close-quarters combat, of dozens of Tigers and Panthers destroying opposing Russian tanks by a score of seven to one throughout the day.
The panzer grenadiers greeted the Red tanks with anti-tank fire that knocked out a quarter of the first echelon in the initial minute of the charge.