army vs array

army

noun
  • The military as a whole. 

  • Used absolutely for that entire branch of the armed forces. 

  • The governmental agency in charge of a state's army. 

  • A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations. 

  • Within a vast military, a very large tactical contingent (e.g. a number of divisions). 

  • Any multitude. 

  • A large group of people working toward the same purpose. 

  • A large group of social animals working toward the same purpose. 

array

noun
  • A militia. 

  • 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. 

  • An orderly series, arrangement or sequence. 

  • Clothing and ornamentation. 

  • A microarray. 

  • A group of hedgehogs. 

  • A collection laid out to be viewed in full. 

  • Common name for matrix. 

  • Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle. 

  • A large collection. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal. 

  • To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time. 

  • To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire. 

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