Array vs Quantity - What's the difference?
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Clothing and ornamentation.
A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
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Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
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A large collection.
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(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.
To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire
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.
A fundamental, generic term used when referring to the measurement (count, amount) of a scalar, vector, number of items or to some other way of denominating the value of a collection or group of items.
An indefinite amount of something.
A specific measured amount.
A considerable measure or amount.
(metrology) Property of a phenomenon, body, or substance, where the property has a magnitude that can be expressed as number and a reference.
(mathematics) Indicates that the entire preceding expression is henceforth considered a single object.
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Array is a related term of quantity.
As nouns the difference between array and quantity
is that array is clothing and ornamentation while quantity is a fundamental, generic term used when referring to the measurement (count, amount) of a scalar, vector, number of items or to some other way of denominating the value of a collection or group of items.As a verb array
is to clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.array
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Dryden)
- a gallant array of nobles and cavaliers
- drawn up in battle array
- wedged together in the closest array
- their long array of sapphire and of gold
- We offer a dazzling array of choices.
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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) disarraySee also
* (any of various data structures) ones-based indexing, zero-based indexingVerb
- He was arrayed in his finest robes and jewels.
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quantity
English
(wikipedia quantity)Noun
(quantities)- You have to choose between quantity and quality.
- Some soap making oils are best as base oils, used in a larger quantity''' in the soap, while other oils are best added in a small '''quantity .
- Olive oil can be used practically in any quantity .
- This bag would normally costs $497.50 for a quantity of 250, at a price of $1.99 per piece.
- Generally it should not be used in a quantity larger than 15 percent.
- The Boeing P-26A was the first all-metal monoplane fighter produced in quantity for the U.S. Army Air Corps.
- x plus ''y'' quantity squared equals ''x'' squared plus ''2xy'' plus ''y'' squared .
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- For problems 58-67, translate each word phrase into an algebraic expression.
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- 65. x plus 9, the quantity squared
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- The second, , read "summation of x, quantity squared," tells us to first add up all the xs to get and then square to get .
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- ANN. quantity cubed.
- SERGE LANG. That's right, .