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A sideways V doing the heavy lifting for armies, gas stations, and ski slopes alike.
means A V-shaped or inverted-V-shaped mark or pattern, used on military insignia to show rank, in heraldry, and as a decorative or directional motif.
from From Old French 'chevron,' meaning 'rafter' — the two slanting beams that meet at the peak of a roof, forming exactly that pointed V. It traces back to Latin 'caper,' 'goat,' likely because a roof's angled beams resembled the arched shape of a goat's hind legs (the same root that gave us 'capricorn'). So every rank stripe and road sign carries the ghost of a goat's leg propping up a roof.
- military rank
- Stripes worn point-up or point-down by sergeants worldwide
- oil giant
- Born from Standard Oil's 1911 antitrust breakup
- road signs
- Curve markers nudge drivers along sharp bends
- heraldry roots
- Medieval shields used it for builders and protection
- chemistry
- Carbon-carbon double bonds zigzag in the same shape
chevron corporation — american multinational oil and gas company, founded 1879, headquartered in san ramon, california
chevron philippines — operator of malampaya deep water gas field, supplies 40% of philippines' natural gas