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en echelon

en echelon adjective: in echelon.

en echelon: in echelon
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Adjective

en echelon (not comparable)

  1. In echelon
    • Fragment of pot-net (?), blue ring-beads only, set in pairs or as above in threes, threaded en echelon. Strung as above.1923, George Andrew Reisner, Excavations at Kerma, volume 4, page 105
  2. Staggered; offset so that the wing turret on one side is mounted further forwards than the one on the opposite side.
  3. Consisting of a series of diagonal lines, each somewhat offset from its neighbors, approximately parallel, but at an angle to a particular direction.
    • This fault zone trends north-south, consists of en echelon horsts and grabens striking about 30° cast of the zone's trend, and was active from the Jurassic through the Eocene. The presence of the grabens, their orientation and en echelon arrangement, and the age of movement are all consistent with...1985, Fossil Energy Update, page 74

Origin of en echelon

From French en échelon, literally in echelon.

Questions about en echelon

What does en echelon mean?
En echelon means in echelon.
What part of speech is en echelon?
En echelon is an adjective.

Words near en echelon in the dictionary

  1. en coup de sabre
  2. en creux
  3. en croix
  4. en dash
  5. en dashes
  6. en echelon
  7. en face
  8. en famille
  9. en femme
  10. en flute
  11. en garde

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