Chevron

Definitions

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.
   British
4. 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 “””.
5. An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.
6. A háček, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.
   informal
7. A wedge-shaped sediment deposit observed on coastlines and continental interiors around the world.
8. Synonym of arrowhead (“horse jump obstacle”).

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“It is pertinent to remember⟳, however, that one of the greatest phoneticians, Jan Hus, used diacritics (in the form⟳ of points, which have⟳ later become⟳ chevrons in his own⟳ language), and that his alphabet is the most satisfactory for eastern Europe, since it has been officially adopted by the languages which use⟳ the Latin script.”

“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.”

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