Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To set out for display or use; place in an orderly arrangement.
  • transitive verb To dress, especially in fine clothes; adorn.
  • noun An orderly, often imposing arrangement.
  • noun An impressively large number, as of persons or objects.
  • noun Splendid attire; fine clothing.
  • noun A rectangular arrangement of quantities in rows and columns, as in a matrix.
  • noun Numerical data linearly ordered by magnitude.
  • noun Computers A group of memory elements accessed by one or more indices.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Regular order or arrangement; disposition in regular lines; specifically, disposition of a body of men for attack or defense: as, troops in battle array.
  • noun An orderly collection or assemblage; especially, a body of men in order of battle or prepared for battle; hence, military force; soldiery; troops.
  • noun A display; an imposing series of things exhibited.
  • noun Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; raiment or apparel.
  • noun Preparation; special arrangement of things.
  • noun Situation; circumstances; position; plight.
  • noun 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.
  • noun Formerly, in England, the muster of a county for military purposes; the men so mustered: as, a commission of array. See commission.
  • noun In mathematics, a collection of quantities arranged in a rectangular block; a matrix.
  • noun In statistics, the values of one variable which are correlated with a certain, definite value of another variable. See correlation, 5.
  • To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; marshal; draw up in hostile order: often used figuratively.
  • To deck or dress; adorn with dress, especially with dress of an ornamental kind.
  • In law, to set (a jury) in order for the trial of a cause; to call (the jury) man by man.
  • To envelop; wrap.
  • Synonyms To arrange, range, marshal, draw up.
  • Adorn, Ornament, Decorate, etc. (see adorn); clothe, invest.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
  • transitive verb To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind.
  • transitive verb (Law) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.
  • transitive verb to set forth in order the men that are impaneled.
  • noun Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
  • noun The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
  • noun An imposing series of things.
  • noun Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
  • noun A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
  • noun The panel itself.
  • noun The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
  • noun (Law) to except to the whole panel.
  • noun (Eng. Hist.) a commission given by the prince to officers in every county, to muster and array the inhabitants, or see them in a condition for war.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire
  • verb To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal
  • noun Clothing and ornamentation.
  • noun A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
  • noun An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
  • noun A large collection.
  • noun 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.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an orderly arrangement
  • noun an impressive display
  • verb lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line
  • verb align oneself with a group or a way of thinking

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English arraien, from Anglo-Norman arraier, from Vulgar Latin *arrēdāre; see reidh- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English arrayen, from Anglo-Norman arayer (compare Old French arayer, areer ("to put in order")), from Medieval Latin arrēdō ("to put in order, arrange, array"), from Medieval Latin *rēdum (“preparation, order”), from Frankish *reida (“preparation, order”) or Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌳𐍃 (garaids, "ready, prepared"), from Proto-Germanic *raidaz, *raidiz (“ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *reidʰ- (“to put in order, ease, make comfortable”). Cognate with Old High German gireiti ("preparation"), Old Frisian rēde ("ready"), Old English ġerǣde ("preparation, equipment"). More at ready.

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  • In this case, usort () will pass the array as the single argument to the function you define. array_pop (array & $array)

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  • $_ = $line; my @array = split (m/\s/, $line); my $hashRef = recur (\@array); my $arrRef = $_ [0]; my @procArr = @$arrRef; shift (@tmpArr); my $arr = $procArr [0]

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