array

Meanings

Noun

• Clothing and ornamentation.
• A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
• An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
• Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
• A large collection.
• Common name for matrix.
• Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.
• A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
• A militia.
• A group of hedgehogs.
• A microarray.

Verb

• To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.
• To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal.
• To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.

Related

Opposite words

• disarray

Narrower meaning words

• Costas array
• intersection array
• Monge array
• standard array
• en
• associative array
• bit array
• dynamic array
• jagged array
• multidimensional array
• parallel array
• ragged array
• sparse array
• variable-length array
• antenna array
• disc array
• gate array
• Halbach array
• linear diode array
• microphone array
• parametric array
• photovoltaic array
• processor array
• reconfigurable datapath array
• staring array
• systolic array
• Video Graphics Array
• Wi-Fi array

Origin

• From Middle English arrayen, from Anglo-Norman arraier (compare Old French arraier, areer), from Medieval Latin arrēdō ("to put in order, arrange, array"), from *rēdum, from Frankish *reida ("preparation, order") or Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 ("ready, prepared"), from Proto-Germanic *raidaz, *raidiz. ready.