'Chevron' definitions:
Definition of 'chevron'
From: WordNet
noun
V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service; "they earned their stripes in Kuwait" [syn: chevron, stripe, stripes, grade insignia]
noun
An inverted V-shaped charge
Definition of 'Chevron'
From: GCIDE
- Chevron \Chev"ron\ (sh[e^]v"r[u^]n), 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Mil.) A distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the sleeve of a non-commissioned officer's coat. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Arch.) A zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in Norman architecture. [1913 Webster]
- Chevron bones (Anat.), The V-shaped subvertebral arches which inclose the caudal blood vessels in some animals. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'chevron'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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