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1. A wide inverted V placed on a shield.
2. Anything V-shaped similarly to the classic chevron shape.
3. A group of birds in flight, when flying in a V formation, as in cranes, ducks, geese, gulls, pelicans and swans.
4. A wedge-shaped sediment deposit observed on coastlines and continental interiors around the world.
5. Synonym of arrowhead (“horse jump obstacle”).
6. A guillemet, either of the punctuation marks “«” or “»”, used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as ““” and “””.
7. An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.
8. A háček, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex. (informal)

Plural chevrons