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Chevron

Chevron Meaning & Definition
Chevron Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Chevron?

[n] an inverted V-shaped charge
[n] V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service

Synonyms | Synonyms for Chevron: grade insignia | stripe | stripes

Related Terms | Find terms related to Chevron: achievement | alerion | angle | animal charge | annulet | apex | argent | armorial bearings | armory | arms | aviation badge | azure | badge | bandeau | bar | bar sinister | baton | bearings | bend | bend sinister | bifurcation | bight | billet | blazon | blazonry | bordure | broad arrow | cadency mark | cant | canton | chaplet | charge | chicken | chief | coat of arms | cockatrice | coin | corner | coronet | crank | crankiness | crescent | crest | crook | crookedness | cross | cross moline | crotchet | crown | deflection | device | difference | differencing | dogleg | eagle | elbow | ell | epaulet | ermine | ermines | erminites | erminois | escutcheon | falcon | fess | fess point | field | file | flanch | fleur-de-lis | flexuosity | fork | fret | fur | furcation | fusil | garland | griffin | gules | gyron | hairpin | hash mark | hatchment | helmet | heraldic device | Hershey bar | honor point | hook | impalement | impaling | inescutcheon | inflection | insignia of branch | knee | L | label | lion | lozenge | mantling | marshaling | martlet | mascle | metal | motto | mullet | nombril point | nook | oak leaf | octofoil | or | ordinary | organization insignia | orle | overseas bar | pale | paly | parachute badge | patch | pean | pheon | pip | point | purpure | quarter | quartering | quoin | rose | sable | saltire | scutcheon | service stripe | shield | shoulder patch | shoulder sleeve insignia | spread eagle | star | stripe | submarine badge | subordinary | swerve | switchback | tenne | tincture | torse | tressure | unicorn | vair | veer | vert | vertex | wreath | yale | zag | zig | zigzag | zigzaggery

See Also | armorial bearing | badge | bearing | charge | heraldic bearing

Chevron In Webster's Dictionary

\Chev"ron\, n. [F., rafter, chevron, from ch['e]vre goat, OF. chevre, fr. L. capra she-goat. See {Cheveril}.] 1. (Her.) One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center. 2. (Mil.) A distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the sleeve of a non-commissioned officer's coat. 3. (Arch.) A zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in Norman architecture. {Chevron bones} (Anat.), The V-shaped subvertebral arches which inclose the caudal blood vessels in some animals.

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