array en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- /əˈɹeɪ/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
- /əˈɹæɪ/ (Australia)
- /ˈə.reː/ (India)
- /ˈæː.reː/ (India) spelling pronunciation
- /əˈreː/ (India)
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.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Clothing and ornamentation; raiment.
In this Remembrance Emily e’re day / Aroſe, and dreſs’d her ſelf in rich Array […]
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: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.
2017, anonymous author, “Sovay”, in Roud # 7, Laws N21:
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(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 them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!
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:Upon leaving the center, I photographed the colorful array of petunias decorating the square in purple, pink, yellow, white, and magenta.
2002, David L. Thompson, “River of Memories -An Appalachian Boyhood”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 69:
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(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
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: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.
2007 July 25, Felicity Barringer, “California Utility Agrees to Buy Power Generated by Solar Array”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 May 2021:
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(countable, uncountable) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
drawn up in battle array
He turned it gently, and sidled his face in, round the door. They were looking at the table (which was spread out in great array); for these young housekeepers are always nervous on such points, and like to see that everything is right.
1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the page number)”, in A Christmas Carol. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:wedged together in the closest array
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:
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(countable, uncountable) A large collection.
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.
1814, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in The Corsair, a Tale, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 64, lines 1218–1211:We offer a dazzling array of choices.
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.
2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2018:
- (countable, uncountable) A matrix.
- (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.
- (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.
- (countable, uncountable) A militia.
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(collective, countable, uncountable) A group of hedgehogs.
The array of hedgehogs that have their own running club
2021 November 26, Jon McMichael, “The array of hedgehogs that have their own running club”, in KOAA News5, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2026:The ad shows an array of hedgehogs shopping in a supermarket
2014 February 19, Annie-Rose Harrison-Dunn, “Listen up hedgehogs: Arla’s Lactofree ad is not misleading”, in Food Navigator, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2026:If you get your hands on several of these cuties, you've got yourself an "array of hedgehogs."
2015 December 9, “Cute alert: Arizona officials make pet hedgehogs legal”, in Arizona Republic, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2026:
- (countable, uncountable) A microarray.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| arrays | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
disarray (antonym(s) of “orderly series”)
Deriveds
ICL Distributed Array Processor · bioarray · reflectarray · array data type · array data structure · transmitarray · subarray · eigenarray · misarray · phosphoarray · towed array sonar · coarray · phased-array optics · array controller · oligoarray · intraarray · array cable · Telescope Array Project · array gain · array mbira · Programmable Array Logic · bitarray · macroarray · arraylike · nanoarray · immunoarray · array slicing · varray · array decay · multiarray · array processing · glycoarray · arraylet · seroarray · array programming · interarray · Intel Array Visualizer · miniarray
Hyponyms
staring array (technology: Hyponyms of array) · Video Graphics Array (technology: Hyponyms of array) · parallel array (programming: Hyponyms of array) · gate array (technology: Hyponyms of array) · redundant array of independent disks (unsorted hyponyms) · dynamic array (programming: Hyponyms of array) · ragged array (programming: Hyponyms of array) · programmable logic array (unsorted hyponyms) · parametric array (technology: Hyponyms of array) · bit array (programming: Hyponyms of array) · antenna array (technology: Hyponyms of array) · Monge array (mathematics: Hyponyms of array) · microneedle array (unsorted hyponyms) · wi-fi array (unsorted hyponyms) · curtain array (unsorted hyponyms) · multifunction array radar (unsorted hyponyms) · standard array (mathematics: Hyponyms of array) · multidimensional array (programming: Hyponyms of array) · field-programmable gate array (unsorted hyponyms) · Costas array (mathematics: Hyponyms of array) · disc array (technology: Hyponyms of array) · Wi-Fi array (technology: Hyponyms of array) · sparse array (programming: Hyponyms of array) · microphone array (technology: Hyponyms of array) · variable-length array (programming: Hyponyms of array) · dense array (unsorted hyponyms) · solar array (technology: Hyponyms of array) · sensor array (unsorted hyponyms) · colour filter array (technology: Hyponyms of array) · uncommitted logic array (unsorted hyponyms) · Halbach array (technology: Hyponyms of array) · processor array (technology: Hyponyms of array) · color filter array (technology: Hyponyms of array) · battle-array (unsorted hyponyms) · associative array (programming: Hyponyms of array) · linear diode array (technology: Hyponyms of array) · ball grid array (unsorted hyponyms) · intersection array (mathematics: Hyponyms of array) · photovoltaic array (technology: Hyponyms of array) · systolic array (technology: Hyponyms of array) · reconfigurable datapath array (technology: Hyponyms of array) · jagged array (programming: Hyponyms of array)
Relateds
zero-based indexing (any of various data structures) · ones-based indexing (any of various data structures)
Synonyms
Translations (169)
fr tableau (any of various data structures) · mk ред (an orderly series, arrangement or sequence) · tg массив (any of various data structures) · it schieramento (collection laid out) · uk убрання́ (clothing/ornamentation) · de Zahl (large collection) · bg мно́жество (large collection) · mi huānga (any of various data structures) · eo aranĝo (an orderly series, arrangement or sequence) · it array (any of various data structures) · tr adet (large collection) · tr giyecek (clothing/ornamentation) · it sfilza (large collection) · de Spalte (any of various data structures) · be адзе́нне (clothing/ornamentation) · de Array (any of various data structures) · ru убо́р (clothing/ornamentation) · uk ма́са (large collection) · be мно́ства (large collection) · es atavío (clothing/ornamentation) · zza rêz (any of various data structures) · de Arrangement (collection laid out) · fi taulukko (any of various data structures) · sk pole (any of various data structures) · mi tūtohi tukutuku (any of various data structures) · it combinato (collection laid out) · ru масси́в (any of various data structures) · ota سركی (collection laid out) · de Datenfeld (any of various data structures) · ru мно́жество (large collection) · sv samling (large collection) · tr bolluk (large collection) · pl strój (clothing/ornamentation) · is fylki (large collection) · de Tracht (clothing/ornamentation) · sh nȋz (any of various data structures) · cmn 陣列 /阵列 (any of various data structures) · tr çokluk (large collection) · cmn 數組 /数组 (any of various data structures) · be нара́д (clothing/ornamentation) · el στολή (clothing/ornamentation) · tr giyim (clothing/ornamentation) · et massiiv (any of various data structures) · fi kokoelma (large collection) · de Feld (any of various data structures) · tr miktar sayı (large collection) · no samling (large collection) · ky массив (any of various data structures) · zza timar (collection laid out) · be ма́са (large collection) · pt conjunto (clothing/ornamentation) · fi valikoima (large collection) · vi mảng (any of various data structures) · pt gama (large collection) · fa آرایه (any of various data structures) · mr अॅरे (any of various data structures) · id jajaran (large collection) · de Anzahl (large collection) · el σειρά (large collection) · el παράταξη (any of various data structures) · el σύνολο (clothing/ornamentation) · mk мно́штво (large collection) · lv masīvs (any of various data structures) · cs pole (any of various data structures) · it abbigliamento (clothing/ornamentation) · mk ма́са (large collection) · tr elbise (clothing/ornamentation) · uk бе́зліч (large collection) · bg маси́в (any of various data structures) · sh ни̑з (any of various data structures) · pt traje (clothing/ornamentation) · fi asetelma (clothing/ornamentation) · tr çizelge (contextual) (any of various data structures) · it gamma (large collection) · el διάταξη (large collection) · sv fält (any of various data structures) · tr dizi (any of various data structures) · he מַעֲרָךְ (any of various data structures) · ar مَصْفُوفَة (any of various data structures) · de Bekleidung (clothing/ornamentation) · tr matris (any of various data structures) · is fylki (any of various data structures) · tr düzen (collection laid out) · uk маси́в (any of various data structures) · de Matrix (any of various data structures) · it assortimento (large collection) · hy զանգված (any of various data structures) · az massiv (any of various data structures) · mk гру́па (an orderly series, arrangement or sequence) · ru одея́ние (clothing/ornamentation) · nl array (any of various data structures) · be масі́ў (any of various data structures) · el σειρά (any of various data structures) · ko 배열 (any of various data structures) · es retahíla (an orderly series, arrangement or sequence) · es ristra (an orderly series, arrangement or sequence) · bg носи́я (clothing/ornamentation) · nb tabell (any of various data structures) · es arreglo (any of various data structures) · bg облекло́ (clothing/ornamentation) · tr giyisi (clothing/ornamentation) · pl odzienie (clothing/ornamentation) · tk massiw (any of various data structures) · fr ribambelle (large collection) · ca vector (any of various data structures) · de Übersicht (collection laid out) · es despliegue (collection laid out) · gl gama (large collection) · kk массив (any of various data structures) · mn массив (any of various data structures) · tr tanzim (collection laid out) · sv vektor (any of various data structures) · pt array (any of various data structures) · af versameling (large collection) · it agghindamento (clothing/ornamentation) · pt vetor (unidimensional) (any of various data structures) · de Reihe (any of various data structures) · be убо́р (clothing/ornamentation) · pl ubiór (clothing/ornamentation) · ru ма́сса (large collection) · sl tabela (any of various data structures) · tr sütun (any of various data structures) · fi sijoittelu (collection laid out) · fr gamme (large collection) · ja 配列 (any of various data structures) · uk убра́ння (clothing/ornamentation) · eo tabelo (any of various data structures) · it serie (large collection) · uz massiv (any of various data structures) · tr düzenleme (collection laid out) · uk множина́ (large collection) · lt masyvas (any of various data structures) · id jajaran (collection laid out) · tr giyim kuşam (clothing/ornamentation) · es sarta (an orderly series, arrangement or sequence) · de Feld (collection laid out) · fr kyrielle (large collection) · kk жиым (any of various data structures) · de Tabelle (contextual) (any of various data structures) · mk о́блека (clothing/ornamentation) · pt arranjo (collection laid out) · fr éventail (large collection) · mk ни́за (any of various data structures) · tr sıra (any of various data structures) · af skikking (any of various data structures) · tr satır (any of various data structures) · ru наря́д (clothing/ornamentation) · tr gürlük (large collection) · be убра́нне (clothing/ornamentation) · gl vector (any of various data structures) · de Feld (large collection) · pl obleczenie (clothing/ornamentation) · mk мно́жество (large collection) · tr aranjman (collection laid out) · hu tömb (any of various data structures) · el σειρά (collection laid out) · uk наря́д (clothing/ornamentation) · es galas (clothing/ornamentation) · de Zeile (any of various data structures) · no utvalg (large collection) · bg ма́са (large collection) · pt arranjo (any of various data structures) · es ringlera (an orderly series, arrangement or sequence) · zza çına (diq) (clothing/ornamentation) · uk убі́р (clothing/ornamentation) · fr éventail (collection laid out) · de Reihe (large collection) · de Fülle (large collection) · pl tablica (any of various data structures)