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A chevron (also, especially in older documents, spelled cheveron) is a V-shaped pattern.
The word is usually used in reference to a kind of fret in architecture, or to a badge or insignia used in military or police uniforms to indicate rank or length of service, or in heraldry. The origin seems to be the the shape of the rafters of a building.
In areas observing United States or British Commonwealth doctrine, chevrons are used as an insignia of enlisted or NCO rank by land military forces and by police. One chevron usually designates a private, two a corporal, and three a sergeant. One to four "rockers" may be also be incorporated to indicate various grades of sergeant. In American usage, chevrons typically point up, or on shoulderboard s towards the neck; in Commonwealth usage (and in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force), they usually point down, or on shoulderboards away from the neck.
Small chevrons are part of the insigne to indicate length of time serving in some armies. They are worn on the lower left sleeve.
In heraldry when shown as a smaller size than standard, it is a diminutive called a chevronel.
They are also used as road marking s in some stretches of BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly and CanadianCanada historically the Dominion of Canada is the second-largest, and northernmost, country in the world. It is a decentralized federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, governed as a constitutional monarchy, and formed in 1867 through an act of Confe motorwayA motorway ( United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, and some Commonwealth nations) is both a type of road and a classification. Motorways may also be regarded as highways, designed to carry a large volume of traffic where a normal road would not suffice ors, to help drivers gauge the distance in to the car in front.
The French automobile firm CitroënCitroen is a French automobile manufacturer started in 1919 by Andre Citroen. Originally a mass-market car maker with relatively straight-forward designs, Citroen shocked the world in 1934 with the innovative Traction Avant (front wheel drive) ( 1934- 195 uses a logo commonly referred to as a pair of chevrons, though it originates in the shape of the teeth of special type of gears which that firm made prior to its entering the car business.
As a part of punctuationPunctuation marks are written symbols that do not correspond to either phonemes (sounds) of a spoken language nor to lexemes (words and phrases) of a written language, but which serve to organize or clarify written language. See orthography. The rules of, chevrons (also known as guillemets or angle quotes) usually act as quotation markSymbol " is used to mean inch too. Quotation marks also called quotes or inverted commas are punctuation marks used in pairs to set off speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which mas, particularly in Spanish, French, and Portuguese. Examples would be ‹single quotes› and «double quotes».