English Dictionary

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IPA（発音記号）

/ˈʃɛvɹən/

名詞

イギリス英語 くだけた表現

A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve. / (heraldry) A wide inverted V placed on a shield.

日本語の意味

逆V字型の模様。 / 建築装飾などに用いられるV字型のデザイン。 / 軍や警察の階級章として袖などに用いられる。 / 紋章学において、盾に配置される大きな逆V字形状の図形。

The chevron painted on the runway clearly guided pilots during the storm.

嵐の間、滑走路に描かれたV字模様がパイロットをはっきりと導いた。

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

(heraldry) A wide inverted V placed on a shield.

意味（3）

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

I told you that in fact they were called chevrons and it was an exercise by the transport department to teach us to stay two chevrons behind the car in front.

意味（4）

A guillemet, either of the punctuation marks “«” or “»”, used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as ““” and “””.

意味（5）

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

意味（6）

(informal) A háček, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.

It is pertinent to remember, however, that one of the greatest phoneticians, Jan Hus, used diacritics (in the form of points, which have later become chevrons in his own language), and that his alphabet is the most satisfactory for eastern Europe, since it has been officially adopted by the languages which use the Latin script.

chevrons （ plural ）