Citations:echelon

English citations of echelon

1. verb senses
   • 1934, Leonard George Carr Laughton, The Mariner's Mirror, volume 20, page 114:

     According to him, "as Demetrius echeloned the two oars through the outrigger, so in some way he also echeloned the two sets of rowers — that was the discovery which created such excitement."

   • 1995, László Török, Hellenistic and Roman Terracottas from Egypt, page 143:

     She wears a vulture headdress over an echeloned wig which is encircled by a fillet.

   • 2002, David Drake, Paying the Piper:

     Mitzi's driver echeloned the big vehicle slightly to the right of Tranter's line to stay out of the combat car's dust.

   • 2010, Jennifer Baird, Ancient Graffiti in Context:

     And is it possible to reconstruct the attitude(s) towards graffiti among the Greek and Roman intellectual elite whose cultural and political superiority rests on commitment to literary paideia as a dynamic and competitive, but also conservative, echeloned and exclusionist discoursal matrix?

   • (Can we date this quote?), Jay Stanley, Challenges in Military Health Care, page 151:

     […] and the requirements for managing these wounds and illnesses in an echeloned setting where treatments are fragmented into stages.

   • 1995, Army Logistician, page 11:

     This area is divided into ground and air transportation requirements, maintenance, sustainment, and medical operations and provides planning space for reconstitution operations and the forward echeloning of multifunctional logistics support elements of less than battalion size.

   • 1989, Eleni Vassilika, Ptolemaic Philae:

     The first register of the west wall was "cleaned up" so that the wigs are carefully echeloned, the eyes on one figure have rims and cosmetic lines, the female breasts in some cases show a tuck in the armpit and most of the knees of the figures show a nick. In the first register of the east wall the faces show eyebrows, rimmed eyelids, the crowns are well engraved and the hair is echeloned.

2. noun senses
   • 2014, Gerhard Aust, Vertical Cooperative Advertising in Supply Chain Management:

     Based on the possible decisions of the supply chain echelons, the customer demand Djk of product k resulting for retailer j may generally depend both on retail prices p, where p denotes the matrix consisting of the retail prices pjk each retailer j charges for each product k, as well as on the advertising expenditures A and a, where A and a indicate vectors containing the advertising expenditures Ai and a j of all manufacturers and retailers, respectively.

   • 1985, John H. Saxon, Geometry, Trigonometry, Algebra III: An Incremental Development, Higher-order echelons:

     The matrix echelon method of solution can be used to solve any n x n system of linear equations.