chevron

/หˆสƒษ›vษนษ™n/

IPA: /SH EH1 V R AH0 N/

noun
  1. 1

    A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve

  2. 2

    A wide inverted V placed on a shield.

  3. 3

    One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles.

  4. 4

    A guillemet, either of the punctuation marks โ€œยซโ€ or โ€œยปโ€, used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as โ€œโ€œโ€ and โ€œโ€โ€.

  5. 5

    An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.

  6. 6

    A hรกฤek, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.

verb
  1. 1

    To form or be formed into chevrons

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chevron