English Explanatory Dictionary

array

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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. A matrix.
  7. 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. 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.
  9. A militia.
  10. A group of hedgehogs.
  11. 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.

Pronunciation

/əˈɹeɪ/ en-us-array.ogg /əˈɹæɪ/ /ˈæɾej/ /əˈɾej/

Word forms

array arrays arraying arrayed

Etymology

From Middle English arrayen, from Anglo-Norman arraier (compare Old French arraier, areer (“to put in order”)), from Vulgar Latin *arrēdō (“to put in order, arrange, array”), from *rēdum (“preparation, order”), from Frankish *raid or *raidā (“preparation, order”) or Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (garaiþs, “ready, prepared”), from Proto-Germanic *raidaz, *raidiz (“ready”). Compare Old English rād (“condition, stipulation”), Old High German antreitī (“order, rank”). Doublet of ready.

Synonyms

don dress put on accouter address apparel array attire beclothe clothe dight garment enrobe equip invest robe slip on vest adore adorn detail beautify bedeck betrim commend decorate decore deck deck out do up dress up dub embellish enrich garnish grace mangonize ornament prettify pretty up

Antonyms

disarray

Related words

ones-based indexing zero-based indexing

Derived words

array cable array controller array data structure array data type array decay array gain arraylet arraylike array mbira array processing array programming array slicing bioarray bitarray coarray eigenarray glycoarray ICL Distributed Array Processor immunoarray Intel Array Visualizer interarray intraarray macroarray miniarray misarray multiarray nanoarray oligoarray phased-array optics phosphoarray Programmable Array Logic reflectarray seroarray subarray Telescope Array Project towed array sonar transmitarray varray arrayer misarrayed rearray unarrayed
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