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  • Echelon form, in mathematics, a kind of matrix
  • Echelon formation, a formation in aerial combat, tank warfare, naval warfare and medieval warfare; also used to describe a migratory bird formation. Each element of the formation (on one wing of the echelon) will be both further out from the lead element and further back than the preceding element.
  • Echelon crack. a cracking pattern that indications a response to shear stress, often found in streets crossing zones of aseismic creep.
  • ECHELON is an intelligence gathering network run by an international alliance of signals intelligence organisations known as UKUSA
    • Echelon IV, in the video game Deus Ex is replaced by Daedalus, a fictional computer surveillance system
    • Third Echelon is the name of a fictional sub-agency within the National Security Agency featured in the Splinter Cell series of games and novels created by Tom Clancy
  • Echelon (warez), a game console warez organization
  • Echelon (flight simulator), a flight simulator series developed by MADIA
  • Echelon (video game), a 1988 video game which could employ acoustic steering commands
  • Echelon (card game), a card game by Echelon Games
  • Echelon (geology), in geology, a set of short linear features which overlap or are staggered in a line that runs obliquely to the strike of the individual features
  • Echelon (band)
  • Echelon (Chess)
  • Echelon (board game), made by the The Great Game Company in 1989. Where people must memorize passages of literature and answer questions about the passages correctly to collect letters spelling Echelon. First one to collect all the letters of the word Echelon wins.
  • Echelon is the street team of the band 30 Seconds to Mars, and also the name of a song on their debut album
  • Echelon Corporation, a US Corporation, self identified as a pioneer in control networks, creators of the LonWorks distributed control platform
  • Riding in an echelon, a road bicycle racing technique to make maximum use of another rider's slipstream in a crosswind
  • Echelon (novel), a novel by Josh Conviser.
  • Echelon Place, the Boyd Gaming casino built on the site of the former Stardust Resort & Casino

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TP: Inside Echelon (5636 words)
Echelon, or systems like it, will be with us a long time to come.
Echelon is a system used by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) to intercept and process international communications passing via communications satellites.
Before the introduction of Echelon, different countries and different stations knew what was being intercepted and to whom it was being sent.
Echelon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (260 words)
The echelon formation in migratory bird flight, aerial combat, tank warfare, naval warfare and medieval warfare.
ECHELON is an intelligence gathering network rumoured to be run by an international alliance of signals intelligence organisations known as UKUSA.
Echelon in geology refers to a set of short linear features that overlap or are staggered in a line that runs obliquely to the strike of the individual features.
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