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A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve.

A wide inverted V placed on a shield.

One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles.

2009, Jamie Dunn, Truckie has a point, Sunshine Coast Daily Online, June 13, 2009. I told you that in fact they were called chevrons and it was an exercise by the transport department to teach us to stay two chevrons behind the car in front.

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 “””.

An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.

To form or be formed into chevrons

...the sheet to be chevroned locks itself into the furrow.

... as a thick finger with a gob of very slippery jelly or cream comes sliding down the crack now towards his asshole, chevroning the hairs along like topo lines up a river valley...