Usually means: V-shaped pattern or insignia.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word Chevron:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. chevron: Merriam-Webster
  2. chevron: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chevron: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chevron: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chevron: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chevron, chevron, chevron: Wordnik
  7. chevron: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. chevron: Wiktionary
  9. chevron: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chevron: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chevron: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Chevron, chevron: Dictionary.com
  13. chevron: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. CHEVRON, Chevron (aeronautics), Chevron (aerospace), Chevron (anatomy), Chevron (disambiguation), Chevron (geology), Chevron (insigne), Chevron (insignia), Chevron (land form), Chevron: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Chevron: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. chevron: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. chevron: Rhymezone
  18. Chevron, chevron (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. chevron: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. chevron: FreeDictionary.org
  21. chevron: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. chevron: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. chevron: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. chevron: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. CHEVRON: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  3. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  4. chevron: Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chevron (disambiguation), chevron: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Chevron: Castle Terms
  3. chevron, chevron: A Word A Day

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Chevron: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. chevron: Mussel Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chevron: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See chevroning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (chevron)

noun:  . v-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve.
noun:  (heraldry) A wide inverted V placed on a shield.
noun:  (chiefly British) One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles.
noun:  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 “””.
noun:  An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.
noun:  (informal) A háček, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.
noun:  A wedge-shaped sediment deposit observed on coastlines and continental interiors around the world.
noun:  Synonym of arrowhead (“horse jump obstacle”)
verb:  To form or be formed into chevrons

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