squadron

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A body of troops drawn up in a square.

   “Those half-rounding guards / Just met, and, closing, stood in squadron joined.”

2. isim A body of cavalry comprising two companies or troops, averaging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred soldiers.
3. isim A body of infantrymen made up of several platoons, averaging from eighty to one hundred and fifty men, and led by a captain or a major.
4. isim A detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer

   “the North Atlantic Squadron”

5. isim A tactical air force unit; consists of at least two flights; multiple squadrons make up a group or wing (depending on particular air force).
6. isim A spaceforce unit; multiple squadrons make up an operations delta or a support garrison.
7. fiil To divide up into squadrons.