array

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
array /əˈreɪ/

▶noun

• 1 an impressive display or range of a particular thing.

• 2 an ordered arrangement of troops.

• 3 Mathematics an arrangement of quantities or symbols in rows and columns; a matrix.

• 4 Computing an ordered set of related elements.

• 5 Law a list of impanelled jurors.

• 6 literary elaborate or beautiful clothing.

▶verb

• 1 display or arrange in a neat or impressive way.

• 2 (be arrayed in) be elaborately clothed in.

• 3 Law impanel (a jury).

– origin ME: from OFr. arei (n.), areer (v.), based on L. ad- ‘towards’ + a Gmc base meaning ‘prepare’.