1. array - Noun
2. array - Verb
Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
An imposing series of things.
Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
The panel itself.
The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind.
To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.
Source: Webster's dictionaryDoing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. Larry Wall
The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions. John Henry Holland
The living world is not a single array. . . connected by unbroken series of intergrades. Theodosius Dobzhansky
Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces. Aberjhani
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. Jean Rostand