Array



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 部署; n. 数字排列; 陈列
• ［英］ v. 部署 ( place armed forces in battle order) ; n. 数字排列; 陈列 ( impressive display )
• ［类］ array : numbers / formation : soldiers ( 数列是数字排列 / 队列是士兵排列)

Webster Collegiate

I. transitive verb

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French arraier, from Vulgar Latin *arredare, from Latin ad- + a base of Germanic origin; akin to Gothic garaiths arranged — more at ready
• Date: 14th century
• 1. to dress or decorate especially in splendid or impressive attire ; adorn he had already arrayed himself in his best clothes — Thomas Hardy
• 2.
  • a. to set or place in order ; draw up, marshal the forces arrayed against us
  • b. to set or set forth in order (as a jury) for the trial of a cause
• 3. to arrange or display in or as if in an array the…data are arrayed in descending order — Ed Burnett
• • arrayer noun

II. noun

• Date: 14th century
• 1.
  • a. a regular and imposing grouping or arrangement ; order lined up…in soldierly array — Donald Barthelme
  • b. an orderly listing of jurors impaneled
• 2.
  • a. clothing, attire
  • b. rich or beautiful apparel ; finery
• 3. a body of soldiers ; militia the baron and his feudal array
• 4. an imposing group ; large number faced a whole array of problems; also variety, assortment a broad array of styles
• 5.
  • a.
    • (1) a number of mathematical elements arranged in rows and columns
    • (2) a data structure in which similar elements of data are arranged in a table
  • b. a series of statistical data arranged in classes in order of magnitude
• 6. a group of elements forming a complete unit an antenna array

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