"en echelon" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From French en échelon, literally in echelon.",
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      "expansion": "en echelon (not comparable)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "kind": "topical",
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      "glosses": [
        "In echelon:",
        "Staggered; offset so that the wing turret on one side is mounted further forwards than the one on the opposite side."
      ],
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          "echelon",
          "echelon"
        ],
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          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "military",
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        ],
        [
          "turret",
          "turret"
        ],
        [
          "Staggered",
          "staggered"
        ],
        [
          "offset",
          "offset"
        ],
        [
          "mount",
          "mount"
        ],
        [
          "forward",
          "forward"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "In echelon:",
        "(nautical, military, of wing-mounted gun turrets on a warship) Staggered; offset so that the wing turret on one side is mounted further forwards than the one on the opposite side."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of wing-mounted gun turrets on a warship"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "nautical",
        "politics",
        "transport",
        "war"
      ]
    },
    {
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          "name": "Geology",
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            "Fundamental"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985, Fossil Energy Update, page 74",
          "text": "This fault zone trends north-south, consists of en echelon horsts and grabens striking about 30° cast of the zone's trend, and was active from the Jurassic through the Eocene. The presence of the grabens, their orientation and en echelon arrangement, and the age of movement are all consistent with divergent strike-slip movement.",
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        }
      ],
      "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."
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        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "In echelon:",
        "(geology) 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"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Rivadavia-class battleship"
  ],
  "word": "en echelon"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English uncomparable adjectives"
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  "etymology_text": "From French en échelon, literally in echelon.",
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      "expansion": "en echelon (not comparable)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "en:Military",
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In echelon:",
        "Staggered; offset so that the wing turret on one side is mounted further forwards than the one on the opposite side."
      ],
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        ],
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        [
          "military",
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        ],
        [
          "Staggered",
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        ],
        [
          "offset",
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        ],
        [
          "mount",
          "mount"
        ],
        [
          "forward",
          "forward"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "In echelon:",
        "(nautical, military, of wing-mounted gun turrets on a warship) Staggered; offset so that the wing turret on one side is mounted further forwards than the one on the opposite side."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of wing-mounted gun turrets on a warship"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "topics": [
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          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "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."
      ],
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          "In",
          "in"
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        [
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        ],
        [
          "geology",
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "In echelon:",
        "(geology) 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"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Rivadavia-class battleship"
  ],
  "word": "en echelon"
}