array
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹeɪ/
ipa: /əˈɹæɪ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈæɾej/
note: Indic
ipa: /əˈɾej/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: arrays
Etymology: From Middle English arrayen, from Anglo-Norman arraier (compare Old French arraier, areer (“to put in order”)), from Medieval 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.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 2017, anonymous author, “Sovay”, in Roud # 7, Laws N21:
text: In this Remembrance Emily e’re day / Aroſe, and dreſs’d her ſelf in rich Array […]
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, book I, page 8:
glosses: Clothing and ornamentation; raiment.
examples: text: 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!
ref: 1788 June, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, “Mr. Sheridan’s Speech, on Summing Up the Evidence on the Second, or Begum Charge against Warren Hastings, Esq., Delivered before the High Court of Parliament, June 1788”, in Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary, with Prefatory Remarks by N[athaniel] Chapman, M.D., volume I, [Philadelphia, Pa.]: Published by Hopkins and Earle, no. 170, Market Street, published 1808, →OCLC, page 474:
text: Upon leaving the center, I photographed the colorful array of petunias decorating the square in purple, pink, yellow, white, and magenta.
ref: 2002, David L. Thompson, “River of Memories -An Appalachian Boyhood”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 69:
glosses: A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
examples: text: 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
ref: 1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:
text: 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.
ref: 2007 July 25, Felicity Barringer, “California Utility Agrees to Buy Power Generated by Solar Array”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
examples: text: drawn up in battle array
text: wedged together in the closest array
ref: 1776–1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
examples: text: We offer a dazzling array of choices.
text: Again his waves in milder tints unfold / Their long array of sapphire and of gold, / Mixt with the shades of many a distant isle, / That frown—where gentler ocean seems to smile.
ref: 1814, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in The Corsair, a Tale, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 64, lines 1218–1211:
text: 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 the array of attacking talent in front of them.
ref: 2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A large collection.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A matrix.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: 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.
topics: law
glosses: 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.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A militia.
glosses: A group of hedgehogs.
glosses: A microarray.
Hyponyms: sense: mathematics: Hyponyms of array
word: Costas array
sense: mathematics: Hyponyms of array
word: intersection array
sense: mathematics: Hyponyms of array
word: Monge array
sense: mathematics: Hyponyms of array
word: standard array
sense: programming: Hyponyms of array
word: associative array
sense: programming: Hyponyms of array
word: bit array
sense: programming: Hyponyms of array
word: dynamic array
sense: programming: Hyponyms of array
word: jagged array
sense: programming: Hyponyms of array
word: multidimensional array
sense: programming: Hyponyms of array
word: parallel array
sense: programming: Hyponyms of array
word: ragged array
sense: programming: Hyponyms of array
word: sparse array
sense: programming: Hyponyms of array
word: variable-length array
sense: technology: Hyponyms of array
word: antenna array
sense: technology: Hyponyms of array
word: color filter array
sense: technology: Hyponyms of array
word: colour filter array
sense: technology: Hyponyms of array
word: disc array
sense: technology: Hyponyms of array
word: gate array
sense: technology: Hyponyms of array
word: Halbach array
sense: technology: Hyponyms of array
word: linear diode array
sense: technology: Hyponyms of array
word: microphone array
sense: technology: Hyponyms of array
word: parametric array
sense: technology: Hyponyms of array
word: photovoltaic array
sense: technology: Hyponyms of array
word: processor array
sense: technology: Hyponyms of array
word: reconfigurable datapath array
sense: technology: Hyponyms of array
word: staring array
sense: technology: Hyponyms of array
word: systolic array
sense: technology: Hyponyms of array
word: Video Graphics Array
sense: technology: Hyponyms of array
word: Wi-Fi array
sense: unsorted hyponyms
word: ball grid array
sense: unsorted hyponyms
word: battle-array
sense: unsorted hyponyms
word: curtain array
sense: unsorted hyponyms
word: dense array
sense: unsorted hyponyms
word: field-programmable gate array
sense: unsorted hyponyms
word: microneedle array
sense: unsorted hyponyms
word: multifunction array radar
sense: unsorted hyponyms
word: programmable logic array
sense: unsorted hyponyms
word: redundant array of independent disks
sense: unsorted hyponyms
word: sensor array
sense: unsorted hyponyms
word: uncommitted logic array
sense: unsorted hyponyms
word: wi-fi array
Derived terms: 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
Related terms: sense: any of various data structures
word: ones-based indexing
sense: any of various data structures
word: zero-based indexing