Array

Quick meaning: Array is a noun meaning Clothing and ornamentation; raiment.

Meaning

Clothing and ornamentation; raiment.

More Meanings

1. A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
2. An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
3. Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
4. A large collection.
5. (mathematics) A matrix.
6. (law) 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.
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.

Example Sentences

drawn up in battle array

wedged together in the closest array

In this Remembrance Emily e’re day / Aroſe, and dreſs’d her ſelf in rich Array […]

But the chivalry of France was represented by as gallant an array of nobles and cavaliers as ever fought under the banner of the lilies

Word Forms

• arrays
• arraying
• arrayed

Synonyms for array

Depending on context, synonyms include don, dress, put on, accouter, apparel, attire.

Antonyms for array

Common opposites include disarray.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include raiment, lay out, range, align, finery, regalia.

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