Echelon

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Echelon may refer to:

• 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
• 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 that overlap or are staggered in a line that runs obliquely to the strike of the individual features
• Echelon (band)
• Echelon (Thirty Seconds to Mars) is the street team of the band 30 Seconds to Mars
• Echelon Corporation, a US Corporation, self identified as a pioneer in control networks, creators of the LonWorks distributed control platform
• Echelon Cycle Works, a company that builds custom steel road, track, and cyclocross bicycle frames [1]
• Riding in an echelon, a road bicycle racing technique to make maximum use of another rider's slipstream in a crosswind