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Definitions for Echelon

[1] a level of command, authority, or rank: After years of service, she is now in the upper echelon of city officials.
[2] a level of worthiness, achievement, or reputation: studying hard to get into one of the top echelon colleges.
[3] Military . a formation of troops, ships, airplanes, etc., in which groups of soldiers or individual vehicles or craft are arranged in parallel lines, either with each line extending to the right of the one in front (right echelon) or with each line extending to the left of the one in front (left echelon) , so that the whole presents the appearance of steps.
[4] Military . one of the groups of a formation so arranged.
[5] Archaic . any structure or group of structures arranged in a steplike form.
[6] Also called echelon grating. Spectroscopy . a diffraction grating that is used in the resolution of fine structure lines and consists of a series of plates of equal thickness stacked in staircase fashion.
[7] to form in an echelon.
[8] a level of command, responsibility, etc (esp in the phrase the upper echelons )
[9] military a formation in which units follow one another but are offset sufficiently to allow each unit a line of fire ahead a group formed in this way
[10] physics a type of diffraction grating used in spectroscopy consisting of a series of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset
[11] to assemble in echelon

Words related to Echelon

degree, string, office, grade, rank, queue, place, file, tier, position, line, row

Words nearby Echelon

ecgonine, echard, echegaray, echegaray y eizaguirre, echelette, echelon, echeveria, echeverría, echeverría álvarez, echidna, echinacea

Origin of Echelon

1790–1800; < French échelon, orig. rung of a ladder, Old French eschelon, equivalent to esch(i)ele ladder (< Latin scāla; see scale3) + -on noun suffix

Other words from Echelon

ech·e·lon·ment , noun

Word origin for Echelon

C18: from French échelon, literally: rung of a ladder, from Old French eschiele ladder, from Latin scāla; see scale ³

Synonyms for Echelon

degree, file, grade, line, office, place, position, queue, rank, row, string, tier