array

noun arrays

1. countable, uncountable Clothing and ornamentation; raiment. 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.
2. countable, uncountable A collection laid out to be viewed in full. 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 the
3. countable, uncountable An orderly series, arrangement or sequence. 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
4. countable, uncountable Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle. drawn up in battle array
5. countable, uncountable A large collection. We offer a dazzling array of choices.

   Similar: panoply

6. countable, uncountable A matrix.
7. countable, uncountable 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. countable, uncountable 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. countable, uncountable A militia.
10. collective, countable, uncountable A group of hedgehogs. The array of hedgehogs that have their own running club
11. countable, uncountable A microarray.

Opposite: disarray

verb arrays · arraying · arrayed

1. To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire. He was arrayed in his finest robes and jewels.

   Similar: don, dress, put on, accouter, address, apparel, array, attire, beclothe, clothe, dight, garment

2. To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal. It is a noble ambition, and the forces arrayed against it are mighty.
3. To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time. Alſo, though there be no perſonal objection againſt the ſheriff, yet if he arrays the panel at the nomination, or under the direction of either party, this is good cauſe of challenge to the array.