Phalanx
- Proper noun. The brand name of a radar-controlled rapid fire 20mm Gatling-type machine gun, the '''Phalanx''' CIWS (pronounced ''see-wiz''), deployed on U.S. Navy ships as a last line of defense against antiship cruise missiles.
- Noun. (context, plural '''phalanxes''') a large group of people, animals or things, compact or closely massed, or tightly knit and united in common purpose.
- Noun. (skeleton, plural '''phalanges''') One of the bones of the finger or toe.
- Noun. (historical, plural '''phalanxes''') An ancient Greek military unit that consisted of several ranks and files (lines) of soldiers in close array with joined shields and long spears.
- Noun. (''historical sociology'') A Fourierite utopian community; a phalanstery.
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