Array

/əˈɹeɪ/ · noun

Meaning

Clothing and ornamentation; raiment..

Definitions by Sense

1. Clothing and ornamentation; raiment.
2. A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
3. An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
4. Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
5. A large collection.
6. (mathematics) A matrix.
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 a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.

Example Sentences

Sovay, Sovay all on a day, She dressed herself in man's array, With a sword and a pistol all by her side, To meet her true love to meet her true love away did ride.

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

The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!

Upon leaving the center, I photographed the colorful array of petunias decorating the square in purple, pink, yellow, white, and magenta.

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

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 troughlike arrays of mirrors spread over nine square miles in the Mojave Desert.

drawn up in battle array

wedged together in the closest array

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• arrays
• arraying
• arrayed

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