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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englisharrayen, fromAnglo-Normanarraier (compareOld Frencharraier,areer(to put in order)), fromMedieval Latinarrēdō(to put in order, arrange, array), from*rēdum(preparation, order), fromFrankish*raid or*raidā(preparation, order) orGothic𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃(garaiþs,ready, prepared), fromProto-Germanic*raidaz,*raidiz(ready). CompareOld Englishrād(condition, stipulation),Old High Germanantreitī(order, rank).Doublet ofready.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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array (countable anduncountable,pluralarrays)

  1. Clothing and ornamentation.
  2. Acollection laid out to beviewed in full.
    • 1788 June,Richard Brinsley Sheridan, “Mr. Sheridan’s Speech, on Summing Up the Evidence on the Second, or Begum Charge againstWarren Hastings, Esq., Delivered before the High Court of Parliament, June 1788”, inSelect Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary, with Prefatory Remarks byN[athaniel] Chapman, M.D., volume I,[Philadelphia, Pa.]: Published by Hopkins and Earle, no. 170,Market Street, published1808,→OCLC,page474:
      The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were,[] after beingfettered andimprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and thisarray of terrours proving unavailing, themeek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made theclimax ofcruelties!
    • 2002, David L. Thompson, “River of Memories -An Appalachian Boyhood”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name), page69:
      Upon leaving the center, I photographed the colorfularray of petunias decorating the square in purple, pink, yellow, white, and magenta.
  3. An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
    • 1855–1858,William H[ickling] Prescott,History of the Reign ofPhilip the Second, King of Spain, volume(please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company,→OCLC:
      But the chivalry of France was represented by as gallant anarray of nobles and cavaliers as ever fought under the banner of the lilies
    • 2007 July 25, Felicity Barringer, “California Utility Agrees to Buy Power Generated by Solar Array”, inThe New York Times[3]:
      SAN FRANCISCO, July 23 — Pacific Gas & Electric, Northern California’s major utility, is announcing a commitment on Wednesday to purchase 550 megawatts of solar power to be generated by troughlikearrays of mirrors spread over nine square miles in the Mojave Desert.
  4. Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
    drawn up in battlearray
  5. A large collection.
    We offer a dazzlingarray of choices.
    • 1814,Lord Byron, “Canto III”, inThe Corsair, a Tale, London: [] Thomas Davison, [], forJohn Murray, [],→OCLC, stanza I,page64, lines1218–1211:
      Again his waves in milder tints unfold / Their longarray of sapphire and of gold, / Mixt with the shades of many a distant isle, / That frown—where gentler ocean seems to smile.
    • 2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City”, inBBC Sport[4]:
      Mario Balotelli, in the headlines for accidentally setting his house ablaze with fireworks, put City on their way with goals either side of the interval as United struggled to contain thearray of attacking talent in front of them.
  6. (mathematics) Amatrix.
  7. (programming) 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.
  8. (law) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of ajury asimpanelled in acause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
  9. (military) Amilitia.
  10. A group ofhedgehogs.[1]
  11. Amicroarray.

Usage notes

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  • (any of various data structures): The exact usage of the termarray, and of related terms, generally depends on the programming language. For example, many languages distinguish a fairly low-level "array" construct from a higher-level "list" or "vector" construct. Some languages distinguish between an "array" and a variety of "associative array"; others have only the latter concept, calling it an "array".

Antonyms

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  • (antonym(s) oforderly series):disarray

Hyponyms

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mathematics: Hyponyms ofarray
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Derived terms

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Translations

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clothing/ornamentation
an orderly series, arrangement or sequence
collection laid out
large collection
any of various data structures
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See also

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References

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  1. ^“AskOxford: H”, inarchived copy of Collective Terms for Groups of Animals[1], Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2019 December 23 (last accessed), archived fromthe original onJune 16, 2006

Verb

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array (third-person singular simple presentarrays,present participlearraying,simple past and past participlearrayed)

  1. Toclothe andornament; toadorn orattire.
    He wasarrayed in his finest robes and jewels.
  2. To lay out in an orderly arrangement; todeploy ormarshal.
  3. (law) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Translations

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to clothe, ornament
to lay out

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglisharray.

Noun

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array m (pluralarrays)

  1. (programming)array(any of various data structures)
    Synonym:vetor
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