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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈskwɒd.ɹən/

名詞

squadron (複数形 squadrons) (abbreviated to: sqn)

1. (obsolete) A body of troops drawn up in a square.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

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

2. (military, historical, army) A body of cavalry comprising two companies or troops, averaging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred soldiers.
3. (military) 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. (military, navy) A detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer

   the North Atlantic Squadron

5. (military, air force) 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. (US, military, U.S. Space Force) A spaceforce unit; multiple squadrons make up an operations delta or a support garrison.

派生語

• flying squadron
• intrasquadron
• squaddie / squaddy
• Squadron Leader, squadron leader

関連する語

• squad

動詞

squadron (三人称単数 現在形 squadrons, 現在分詞 squadroning, 過去形および過去分詞形 squadroned)

1. (transitive) To divide up into squadrons.