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1.NounA body of troops drawn up in a square.
2.NounA body of cavalry comprising two companies or troops, averaging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred soldiers.
3.NounA body of infantrymen made up of several platoons, averaging from eighty to one hundred and fifty men, and led by a captain or a major.
4.NounA detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer"the North Atlantic Squadron"
5.NounA tactical air force unit; consists of at least two flights; multiple squadrons make up a group or wing (depending on particular air force).
6.NounA spaceforce unit; multiple squadrons make up an operations delta or a support garrison.
7.VerbTo divide up into squadrons.