escalonar

From escaló +‎ -ar.

escalonar (first-person singular present escalono, first-person singular preterite escaloní, past participle escalonat)(transitive)

1. to terrace (cut into steps)
2. to spread out, to place at intervals

   Synonyms: esglaonar, graduar

3. (military) to echelon
4. to stagger (space at out intervals of time)

• escalonada
• escalonat

• “escalonar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

• Hyphenation: es‧ca‧lo‧nar

escalonar (first-person singular present escalono, first-person singular preterite escalonei, past participle escalonado)

1. to echelon (to form troops into an echelon)
2. to separate items into categories

From escalón +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /eskaloˈnaɾ/ [es.ka.loˈnaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧ca‧lo‧nar

escalonar (first-person singular present escalono, first-person singular preterite escaloné, past participle escalonado)

1. to alternate between; to stagger
2. to add steps or stairs (to a structure)

• “escalonar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014