en echelon (English, adj)
expansion: en echelon (not comparable)
Senses:
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: In echelon:
Staggered; offset so that the wing turret on one side is mounted further forwards than the one on the opposite side.
tags: not-comparable
raw_tags: of wing-mounted gun turrets on a warship
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: In echelon:
Consisting of a series of diagonal lines, each somewhat offset from its neighbors, approximately parallel, but at an angle to a particular direction.
tags: not-comparable
Forms: