echelon

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A level or rank in an organization, profession, or society.
2. A line of riders seeking maximum drafting in a crosswind, resulting in a diagonal line across the road.
3. A formation of troops, ships, aircraft, etc., in diagonal parallel rows.

Verb

To form troops into an echelon.

Adj

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.

Conceptos

escalón

escalafón

escalonamiento

escalonar

círculos dirigentes

Sinónimos

instance

rank

class

element

unit

gradation

corps

link

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position

cohesion

rung

scaling

social standing

status

echelonment

social stratum

echelle

force

Traducciones

échelon

escalão

scaglione

diziliş

Staffel

Truppe

βαθμός αξιωματικού

ιεραρχία επιχείρησης

κλιμακοειδής διάταξη στρατού

κλιμάκιο

corps

détachement

troupe

unité

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈɛʃ.ə.lɒn/

Etimología (Inglés)

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”).