array
English
/əˈɹeɪ/, /əˈɹeɪ/
noun
Definitions
- Clothing and ornamentation.
- A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
- An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
- Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
- A large collection.
- (mathematics) Common name for matrix.
- (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.
- (legal) 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.
- (military) A militia.
- A group of hedgehogs.
- A microarray.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English arrayen derived from arraier derived from Latin arrēdō derived from Frankish *reida (order, preparation) derived from Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (prepared, ready, arranged, ordered) derived from Proto-Germanic *raidaz.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*raidaz
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- arrayer English
- arrayest English
- arrayeth English
- arraylet English
- arraylike English
- bioarray English
- bit English
- bitarray English
- coarray English
- eigenarray English
- glycoarray English
- immunoarray English
- interarray English
- intermicroarray English
- intraarray English
- macroarray English
- microarray English
- microarrayed English
- microarrayer English
- miniarray English
- misarray English
- multiarray English
- nanoarray English
- oligoarray English
- oligomicroarray English
- phosphoarray English
- rearray English
- reflect English
- reflectarray English
- seroarray English
- subarray English
- transmit English
- transmitarray English
- *arredāre Latin
- arrēdō Latin
- arre Spanish, Castilian
- arrear Spanish, Castilian
- array Portuguese
- microarray Portuguese
- *raidaz Proto-Germanic
- *raidijaz Proto-Germanic
- arrayen Middle English
- arraiement Old French
- arraier Old French
- 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 Gothic
- *reida Frankish
- arraier xno
- bit
- reflect
- coarray
- arrayer
- rearray
- bitarray
- transmit
- bioarray
- arrayeth
- arrayest
- subarray
- misarray
- arraylet
- seroarray
- miniarray
- nanoarray
- arraylike
- macroarray
- interarray
- oligoarray
- intraarray
- eigenarray
- microarray
- glycoarray
- multiarray
- immunoarray
- microarrayed
- microarrayer
- phosphoarray
- reflectarray
- transmitarray
- intermicroarray
- oligomicroarray