array
Other forms: arrayed; arraying; arrays
An array is a display of something — usually something varied. You might encounter an array of cereal brands in the cereal aisle of the grocery store. Your head says to choose the Crunchy Oats 'n' Bran, but your heart wants the Sugar-Coated Chocopuffs.
Although the word array comes from the Old French areyer, "to put in order," an array often just comes together. It can be an intentional design of people or features — everything from software packages to fashion shows can have an "impressive array" of components. Or, an array can fall together in nature or by chance: "the clouds became an array of beautiful shapes after the storm."
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an impressive display“it was a bewildering array of books”“his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall”type of:displayexhibiting openly in public view
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especially fine or decorative clothingtypes:war paintfull ceremonial regaliatype of:article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, vesture, wear, wearablea covering designed to be worn on a person's body
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an orderly arrangement“an array of troops in battle order”types:matrix(mathematics) a rectangular array of quantities or expressions set out by rows and columns; treated as a single element and manipulated according to rulesrowa linear array of numbers, letters, or symbols side by sidecolumna vertical array of numbers or other informationpanoplya complete and impressive arraybankan arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiersspectruman ordered array of the components of an emission or wavecorrelation matrixa matrix giving the correlations between all pairs of data setscorrelation tablea two-way tabulation of the relations between correlates; row headings are the scores on one variable and column headings are the scores on the second variables and a cell shows how many times the score on that row was associated with the score in that columncontents, table of contentsa list of divisions (chapters or articles) and the pages on which they startcalendara tabular array of the days (usually for one year)file allocation tablethe part of a floppy disk or hard disk where information is stored about the location of each piece of information on the disk (and about the location of unusable areas of the disk)periodic table(chemistry) a tabular arrangement of the chemical elements according to atomic number as based on the periodic lawdot matrixa rectangular matrix of dots from which written characters can be formedsquare matrixa matrix with the same number of rows and columnsreal matrixa matrix whose elements are all real numberstransposea matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrixabsorption spectrumthe spectrum of electromagnetic radiation that has passed through a medium that absorbed radiation of certain wavelengthsaction spectrumthe efficiency with which electromagnetic radiation produces a photochemical reaction plotted as a function of the wavelength of the radiationatomic spectrum(physics) a spectrum of radiation caused by electron transitions within an atom; the series of spectrum lines is characteristic of the elementelectromagnetic spectrumthe entire frequency range of electromagnetic wavesemission spectrumspectrum of electromagnetic radiation emitted by a self-luminous sourceinfrared spectrumthe spectrum of infrared radiationline spectruma spectrum in which energy is concentrated at particular wavelengths; produced by excited atoms and ions as they fall back to a lower energy levelmass spectruma distribution of ions as shown by a mass spectrograph or a mass spectrometermicrowave spectrumthe part of the electromagnetic spectrum corresponding to microwavesradio spectrum, radio-frequency spectrumthe entire spectrum of electromagnetic frequencies used for communications; includes frequencies used for radio and radar and televisionacoustic spectrum, sound spectrumthe distribution of energy as a function of frequency for a particular sound sourceultraviolet spectrumthe spectrum of ultraviolet radiationcolor spectrum, visible spectrumthe distribution of colors produced when light is dispersed by a prismtype of:arrangementan orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging
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an arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristicstype of:directional antennaan antenna that transmits or receives signals only in a narrow angle
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lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line
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align oneself with a group or a way of thinking
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Vocabulary lists containing array
Perhaps the ultimate call to arms, Patrick Henry's speech makes a case for the inevitability of the American Revolution. On March 23, 1775 Virginian patriots met at St. John’s Church in Richmond to discuss support for fellow colonists in Massachusetts where Parliament had sent four regiments of troops. Leading the call for Virginian’s to act was Patrick Henry. In proposing that Virginia prepare itself to fight he delivered an emotional speech ending with his immortal words, “Give me liberty or give me death!”
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