0 a small group of about ten or twelve soldiers, with a lieutenant in charge of it:
1 two sports players, especially baseball players, who play at the same position at different times:
The most common platoon uses a left-handed batter against right-handed pitching and a right-handed batter against left-handed pitching.
2 in a sports team, especially in baseball, to use two players at different times at the same position, or to play at the same position as another player:
3 to connect vehicles either physically or using computer technology so they can travel close together in a group, as a way to save space, fuel, or money:
As drivers become comfortable with the technology and see that it is safe, they might be willing to consider platooning in their own cars.
Platooning trucks has been proposed as a way of reducing energy consumption.
4 a military unit consisting of a group of about 20 soldiers who are all members of a company
I was a platoon leader in Vietnam.
They dispatched platoons of soldiers and trucks.
He knew that by platooning players, they'd get angry at him. Almost every player he platooned hated him.
First baseman Rico Brogna was platooned with Wes Helms.
Ortiz should have been platooned.
They told him that he'd be platooning with Fartinez.