Echelon
Echelon comes from the French word 'échelon', meaning a rung of a ladder. It may also mean:
Echelon formation, a military hierarchical formation, also used to describe the migratory patterns of birds
Echelon (signals intelligence), a presumed worldwide intelligence-gathering operation
Science
Echelon crack, a cracking pattern that indications a response to shear stress, often found in streets crossing zones of seismic creep
Echelon (geology), in geology, a set of short linear features which overlap or are staggered in a line that runs obliquely to the strike of the individual features
En echelon veins, geological feature
Row echelon form, in mathematics, a kind of matrix
A spectroscope invented by Albert Abraham Michelson in 1898
Music
The Echelon is the street publicity team of the band 30 Seconds to Mars, and also the name of a song on their debut album
Echelon (record label) is the sublabel of UK based trance music record label Echelon Records
Echelon (band)
Echelon is a name of a song by the Christian rock band Pillar.
Games
Echelon Gaming System (role-playing game), a point-buy d20 role-playing game
Echelon (board game), made by The Great Game Company in 1989. Where people must memorize passages of literature and answer questions about the passages correctly to collect letters spelling Echelon. First one to collect all the letters of the word Echelon wins.
Echelon (card game), a card game by Echelon Games
Computer games
Echelon (flight simulator), a flight simulator series developed by MADIA
Echelon (video game), a 1988 video game which could employ acoustic weapon commands
Echelon (warez), a game console warez organization
Echelon IV, in the video game Deus Ex is replaced by Daedalus, a fictional AI surveillance system
Businesses
Echelon USD is a Moscow-based company that specialises on information security issues.
Echelon Place, the Boyd Gaming resort supposedly going to be built on the site of the former Stardust Resort & Casino
Voorhees Town Center, formerly Echelon Mall
Echelon (logistics), a conceptual level of organization within a supply chain
Echelon Corporation, a US Corporation, self identified as a pioneer in control networks, creators of the LonWorks distributed control platform
Echelon Endocutters, a medical device that staples and cut while delivering 3 rows of stapler on each cut line, manufactured under Ethicon Endosurgery
Other
Riding in an echelon, a road bicycle racing technique to make maximum use of another rider's slipstream in a crosswind
Third Echelon is the name of a fictional sub-agency within the National Security Agency featured in the Splinter Cell series of games and novels created by Tom Clancy
Translation
The word "Echelon" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Danish, Dutch, Russian, Swedish.
Translation in French: Echelon (homonymie).
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