(n.) One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.
(n.) A distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the sleeve of a non-commissioned officer's coat.
(n.) A zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in Norman architecture.
Example Sentences:
(1) The osteotomies were biplanar neck, Chevron, biplanar basilar, basilar concentric, and basilar concentric combined with a lateral closing wedge.
(2) Companies like ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and Halliburton (and many more) have all made key investments in building permanent advocacy assets and programs to support their lobbying, outreach and policy efforts,” the documents say .
(3) However, averaged crossbridge structure differs between lead and rear members of double chevrons, unlike the uniform heads on decorated actin.
(4) The two sides are set to go to court on 15 November, when Chevron will ask a court to reject the ruling from Ecuador .
(5) The approach was a subcostal chevron incision coupled with a midline sternotomy.
(6) Photograph: Alamy “I have had to spend a lot of money in getting an inverter to reduce what I spend on fuel for my generator,” says Osikhena Dirisu, a radio personality at the popular Beat FM, who lives in one of the estates next to the headquarters of Chevron.
(7) This is a retrospective study of two different types of fixation for the offset-V modification of the Chevron (Austin) bunionectomy for correction of hallux abducto valgus deformity.
(8) Two area 18 cells responded consistently better to a chevron stimulus than to a straight line of any orientation.
(9) These contacts had smooth external surfaces and were often arranged in chevron-shaped complexes.
(10) Chevron spokesman Kent Robertson said the Ecuadorians were guilty of "shocking levels of misconduct."
(11) The plaintiffs claim Chevron's operations discharged billions of gallons of toxic waste into Amazon lands, affecting over 1,500 square miles of the Amazon, causing cancer rates to soar, destroying locals' livelihoods and habitats, and killing flora and fauna.
(12) Chevron remains committed to building constructive and positive relationships with the communities where we operate.” But local people in the area covered by Chevron’s concession, claim that such relationships went beyond what might be reasonably termed constructive.
(13) They incorporated a chevron fusion technique previously described.
(14) Preliminary observations showed that the effect occurs also in chevron figures, in an afterimage of the arc figure, and haptically in arc- and chevron-shaped objects.
(15) The sole exception was the Chevron World Challenge at the tail end of last year, when he birdied the final two holes to hold off Zach Johnson for victory.
(16) Chevrons and curved targets show the same pattern of results.
(17) However, four of the 10 (40%) patients who had a Chevron osteotomy plus a lateral adductor release developed osteonecrosis.
(18) In cells with dissimilarly tuned half fields, the skew in chevron tuning was predictable from the orientation tuning of each half of the receptive field.
(19) In the latest stage of its campaign against deep sea drilling, Greenpeace has targeted a 228m long ship owned by the US oil giant Chevron which had been preparing to set sail to drill in about 500m of water some 150km north of Shetland.
(20) Their chevron shapes are inset with cowls and scoops, giving them the air of a certain kind of painted, post-industrial abstract relief I haven't seen in years.
Rompu
Definition:
(a.) Broken, as an ordinary; cut off, or broken at the top, as a chevron, a bend, or the like.