array

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.

• 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.
• noun In statistics, the values of one variable which are correlated with a certain, definite value of another variable. See correlation, 5.
• 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.

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