array
/əˈɹeɪ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.10 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "In this Remembrance Emily e’re day / Aroſe, and dreſs’d her ſelf in rich Array […]"
- "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!"
- "Upon leaving the center, I photographed the colorful array of petunias decorating the square in purple, pink, yellow, white, and magenta."
- "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"
- "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."
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.
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Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈɹeɪ/
- British English: /əˈɹeɪ/
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Phrases
array cable
array controller
array data structure
array data type
array decay
array gain
array mbira
array processing
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