echeloned
Staggered in ranks
Echeloned describes something arranged in echelon—a stepped or staggered formation where units are positioned diagonally rather than in a straight line.
The term appears most often in military contexts, where troops or vehicles advance in offset positions: The echeloned platoons moved up the ridge.
It also describes any stepped arrangement: echeloned seating, echeloned wing formations in geese.
Shocked or unevenly spaced
- steppedMoved foot forward
- offsetCompensate by opposing force
- arrangedPut into order
- positionedSet in location
deployed · arrayed · spaced · aligned · diagonal · successive · cascading · angled
Having multiple levels
- rankedAssigned relative position
- pyramidalHaving four triangular faces
- structuredArranged in organized form
- subordinateOne lower in rank
command · authority · graded · organizational · bureaucratic · corporate · military · administrative
Proceeding by small additions
- progressiveFavoring reform and innovation
- sequentialOccurring in succession
- phasedIntroduced or removed incrementally
- stagedArranged for effect
stepwise · gradational · escalating · cumulative · ascending · layered · scaled · calibrated
staggered
Shocked or unevenly spaced
positioned · deployed · arrayed · spaced · aligned · diagonal · successive · cascading · angled · oblique
tiered
Having multiple levels
- rankedAssigned relative position
- pyramidalHaving four triangular faces
- structuredArranged in organized form
subordinate · command · authority · graded · organizational · bureaucratic · corporate · military · administrative · supervisory
incremental
Proceeding by small additions
- progressiveFavoring reform and innovation
- sequentialOccurring in succession
- phasedIntroduced or removed incrementally
staged · stepwise · gradational · escalating · cumulative · ascending · layered · scaled · calibrated · proportioned
- upper echelonHighest level of hierarchy
- rear echelonNon-combat support zone