echelon

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n. 梯形, 梯阵, 梯次编队 vt. 排成梯队 vi. 形成梯队

发音

UK /ˈɛʃ.ə.lɒn/
AU /ˈeɪ-/
US /ˈɛʃ.əˌlɑn/

词形变化

echelons 复数 echelons echeloned echeloning echelons 三单 echeloning 现在分词 echeloned 过去式 echeloned 过去分词

别名

échelon

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A level or rank in an organization, profession, or society.

  2. 2.

    A line of riders seeking maximum drafting in a crosswind, resulting in a diagonal line across the road.

    体育
  3. 3.

    A formation of troops, ships, aircraft, etc., in diagonal parallel rows.

    政治 军事
v.
  1. 1.

    To form troops into an echelon.

    及物 政治 军事
adj.
  1. 1.

    Of a matrix: having undergone Gaussian elimination with the result that the leading coefficient or pivot (that is, the first nonzero number from the left) of a nonzero row is to the right of the pivot of the row above it, giving rise to a stepped appearance in the matrix.

    数学

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词源

Borrowed from French échelon (“rung; echelon”), from échelle (“ladder”) + -on (diminutive suffix). Échelle is derived from Latin scāla (“ladder”), from scandō (“to ascend, climb”), from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to jump”).

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