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echelon
echelon is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, transitive verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 6 senses
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- 1noun
An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance.
- 2noun
An arrangement of a fleet in a wedge or V formation.
- 3transitive verb
To place in echelon; to station divisions of troops in echelon.
- 4intransitive verb
To take position in echelon.
- 5noun
a diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset
- 6noun
a body of troops arranged in a line
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