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Array vs Divide - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between array and divide

is that array is clothing and ornamentation while divide is a thing that divides.

As verbs the difference between array and divide

is that array is to clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire while divide is to split or separate (something) into two or more parts.

array

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Clothing and ornamentation.
    • (Dryden)
  • A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
  • An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
  • * Prescott
    • a gallant array of nobles and cavaliers
  • Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
    • drawn up in battle array
  • * Gibbon
    • wedged together in the closest array
  • A large collection.
  • * Byron
    • their long array of sapphire and of gold
    We offer a dazzling array of choices.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
    • , date=October 23 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Mario Balotelli, in the headlines for accidentally setting his house ablaze with fireworks, put City on their way with goals either side of the interval as United struggled to contain the array of attacking talent in front of them.}}
  • (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.

    • Usage notes

    * (any of various data structures) The exact usage of the term , and of related terms, generally depends on the programming language. For example, many languages distinguish a fairly low-level "array" construct from a higher-level "list" or "vector" construct. Some languages distinguish between an "array" and a variety of "associative array"; others have only the latter concept, calling it an "array".

    Derived terms

    * * * * *

    Antonyms

    * (orderly series) disarray

    See also

    * (any of various data structures) ones-based indexing, zero-based indexing

    Verb

  • To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire
    • He was arrayed in his finest robes and jewels.
  • To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal
  • (legal) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.
    • (Blackstone)

    divide

    English

    Verb

    (divid)
  • To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
    • a wall divides''' two houses; a stream '''divides the towns
  • * Bible, 1 Kings iii. 25
    • Divide the living child in two.
  • To share (something) by dividing it.
  • * Spenser
    • true justice unto people to divide
  • (arithmetic) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
  • (arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
  • To separate into two or more parts.
  • (biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus, by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying.}}
  • To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
  • * Bible, Mark iii. 24
    • If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
  • * Prescott
    • Every family became now divided within itself.
  • (obsolete) To break friendship; to fall out.
  • * 1605 , , I. ii. 107:
    • love cools, friendship / falls off, brothers divide .
  • (obsolete) To have a share; to partake.
  • * 1608 , , I. vi. 87:
    • Make good this ostentation, and you shall / Divide in all with us.
  • To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
  • * Gibbon
    • The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their equals.
  • To mark divisions on; to graduate.
    • to divide a sextant
  • (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
    • (Spenser)

    Synonyms

    * (split into two or more parts) cut up, disunite, partition, split, split up * (share by dividing) divvy up, divide up, share, share out * (separate into two or more parts) separate, shear, split, split up

    Antonyms

    * (split into two or more parts) combine, merge, unify, unite * (calculate times of multiplication) multiply

    Related terms

    * dividend * division * divisor *

    See also

    * quotient * separate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thing that divides.
    • Stay on your side of the divide , please.
  • An act of dividing.
    • The divide left most of the good land on my share of the property.
  • A distancing between two people or things.
    • There is a great divide between us.
  • (geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
    • If you're heading to the coast, you'll have to cross the divide first.
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