array

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To set out for display or use; place in an orderly arrangement: arrayed the whole regiment on the parade ground.
2. v. To dress in finery; adorn.
3. n. An orderly, often imposing arrangement: an array of royal jewels.
4. n. An impressively large number, as of persons or objects: an array of heavily armed troops; an array of spare parts. See Synonyms at display.
5. n. Splendid attire; finery.
6. n. Mathematics A rectangular arrangement of quantities in rows and columns, as in a matrix.
7. n. Mathematics Numerical data linearly ordered by magnitude.
8. n. Computer Science An arrangement of memory elements in one or more planes.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; marshal; draw up in hostile order: often used figuratively.
2. To deck or dress; adorn with dress, especially with dress of an ornamental kind.
3. In law, to set (a jury) in order for the trial of a cause; to call (the jury) man by man.
4. To envelop; wrap.
5. Synonyms To arrange, range, marshal, draw up.
6. Adorn, Ornament, Decorate, etc. (see adorn); clothe, invest.
7. n. Regular order or arrangement; disposition in regular lines; specifically, disposition of a body of men for attack or defense: as, troops in battle array.
8. n. An orderly collection or assemblage; especially, a body of men in order of battle or prepared for battle; hence, military force; soldiery; troops.
9. n. A display; an imposing series of things exhibited.
10. n. Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; raiment or apparel.
11. n. Preparation; special arrangement of things.
12. n. Situation; circumstances; position; plight.
13. n. In law: The body of persons summoned to serve upon a jury. The act of impaneling a jury; that is, the act of the proper officer setting a jury in order for the trial of a cause, or calling it man by man. The jury impaneled.
14. n. Formerly, in England, the muster of a county for military purposes; the men so mustered: as, a commission of array. See commission.
15. n. In mathematics, a collection of quantities arranged in a rectangular block; a matrix.
16. n. In statistics, the values of one variable which are correlated with a certain, definite value of another variable. See correlation, 5.

Wiktionary

1. v. To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire
2. v. To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal
3. n. Clothing and ornamentation.
4. n. A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
5. n. An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
6. n. A large collection.
7. n. programming 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.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
2. n. The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
3. n. An imposing series of things.
4. n. Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
5. n. A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
6. n. The panel itself.
7. n. The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
8. v. To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
9. v. To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind.
10. v. (Law) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an orderly arrangement
2. n. an impressive display
3. v. lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line
4. v. align oneself with a group or a way of thinking
5. n. an arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics
6. n. especially fine or decorative clothing