English
Etymology
From obsolete (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] French plauton , variant of peloton , from (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Middle French pelote + -on . Compare pellet .
Pronunciation
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Noun
platoon (plural platoons )
( military ) A unit of thirty to forty soldiers typically commanded by a lieutenant and forming part of a company .
A group of self-driving vehicles travelling in a close convoy and communicating electronically with each other.
Translations
unit of 30-40 soldiers
Arabic: فَصِيلَة عَسْكَرِيَّة f ( faṣīla ʿaskariyya ) , فَصِيلَة (ar) f ( faṣīla )
Armenian: դասակ (hy) ( dasak )
Azerbaijani: taqım
Belarusian: узво́д m ( uzvód )
Bengali: প্লাটুন ( plaṭun )
Bulgarian: взвод m ( vzvod )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 排
Mandarin: 排 (zh) ( pái ) , 分隊 / 分队 (zh) ( fēnduì ) , 分队 (zh) ( fēnduì )
Czech: četa (cs) f
Danish: deling c
Esperanto: plotono
Estonian: rühm (et)
Finnish: joukkue (fi)
French: peloton (fr) m
German: Zug (de) m , Kolonne (de) f , Sanitätszug m ( medical )
Hebrew: מַחְלָקָה f ( makhlaká )
Hungarian: szakasz (hu)
Ido: pelotono (io)
Irish: buíon m or f
Italian: plotone (it)
Japanese: 小隊 (ja) ( しょうたい, shōtai )
Kazakh: взвод ( vzvod )
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Khmer: កងអនុសេនាតូច ( kong anu sena toch )
Korean: 소대 (ko) ( sodae ) (小隊 (ko) )
Kyrgyz: взвод (ky) ( vzvod )
Latvian: vads m
Lithuanian: būrys m
Macedonian: вод m ( vod ) , чета f ( četa )
Maori: parahūnu , wāhanga toru o te kamupene , paratunu
Polish: pluton (pl) m
Portuguese: pelotão (pt)
Russian: взвод (ru) m ( vzvod )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: во̑д m
Roman: vȏd (sh) m
Slovak: čata f
Slovene: vod m
Spanish: pelotón (es)
Swedish: pluton (sv) c
Tajik: таҳм ( tahm )
Turkish: takım (tr)
Ukrainian: чота́ f ( čotá ) , взвод m ( vzvod )
Uzbek: vzvod (uz)
Vietnamese: trung đội (vi) , tiểu đội (vi)
Verb
platoon (third-person singular simple present platoons , present participle platooning , simple past and past participle platooned )
( baseball ) To alternate starts with a teammate of opposite handedness , depending on the handedness of the opposing pitcher
Taylor has been hitting poorly against left-handers, and Morgan has been hitting poorly against right-handers, so they will platoon .
Of self-driving vehicles : to travel in a close convoy , each vehicle communicating electronically with the others.
See also