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array

/əˈɹeɪ/

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What does array mean?

noun

  1. Clothing and ornamentation; raiment.
  2. A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
  3. An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
More meanings (11)

noun

  1. Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
  2. A large collection.
  3. A matrix.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. A militia.
  7. A group of hedgehogs.
  8. A microarray.

verb

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

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IPA pronunciation

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A blare of sound, a roar of life, a vast array of human hives, appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms.
Theodore DreiserSister Carrie: A NovelProject Gutenberg ebook #233
When men pain them to array the body for to make it seem fairer than God made it, they do great sin.
John, Sir MandevilleThe Travels of Sir John MandevilleProject Gutenberg ebook #782
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There was a most impressive array of pageantry, of processions, a sort of grand ritual, with their arts and their religion broadly blended.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanHerlandProject Gutenberg ebook #32
A squad of sappers and miners, axe on shoulder, had just made their appearance in battle array at the end of the street.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
He recognized it, above all the dire erection of English holiday array, as the face of an old but forgotten friend name Ezza.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) ChestertonThe wisdom of Father BrownProject Gutenberg ebook #223