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Arsenal vs Array - What's the difference?

arsenal | array |

As nouns the difference between arsenal and array

is that arsenal is arsenal while array is clothing and ornamentation.

As a verb array is

to clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.

arsenal

English

(wikipedia arsenal)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A military establishment for the storing, development, manufacturing, testing, or repairing of arms, ammunition, and other war materiel; an armoury.
  • A stock of weapons, especially all the weapons that a nation possesses.
  • A store or supply of anything.
  • * '>citation
  • Any supply of aid collected to prepare a person or army for hardship
    • He arrived with a large arsenal of cleansers and tools, and got right to work.
  • * '>citation
    • Elyse Saugstad, a professional skier, wore a backpack equipped with an air bag, a relatively new and expensive part of the arsenal that backcountry users increasingly carry to ease their minds and increase survival odds in case of an avalanche.

    Derived terms

    * arsenal of democracy

    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)