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noun any of the bones of the fingers or toes
noun any closely ranked crowd of people
noun a body of troops in close array
originBorrowed from Latin phalanx or Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx, “battle order; array”). Doublet of phalange, planch, plancha, planche, and plank.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0