Troops tend to be deployed in 'battalions' (commanded by a lieutenant colonel) as a more convenient size of military unit and, as such, colonels have tended to have a higher profile in specialist and command roles than as actual commanders of regiments.
An iamb /ËaÉªÃ¦m/ or iambus is a metrical foot used in various types of poetry. Originally the term referred to one of the feet of the quantitative meter of classical Greek prosody: a short syllable followed by a long syllable (as in delay).
Common Metric Measures. The metric system is also divided into different categories of measurement, but it has a base unit for each category. A base unit means that that is what the category is usually (but not always) measured in, and all the other terms of measurement in that category are built from the base unit.