arrays

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of array.

   The power station added two more solar arrays to its roof this year.

   Engineers tested the radio arrays carefully before the satellite launched.

   Note

   An ordinary -s plural, spelled exactly like the verb form, so the words around it decide which one you have. A number or determiner points to the noun: two arrays, these arrays, solar arrays. The senses that count pluralize most naturally: orderly series, large collections, and the matrix of mathematics, where a grid of numbers is one array and several are arrays.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of array.

   The curator arrays the artifacts by historical period for each new exhibit.

   The program arrays the results in a sortable table on the screen.

   Note

   The verb behind it always takes what gets arranged or dressed as its object: a general arrays troops, a host arrays a table, a bride arrays herself in silk. A legal use belongs here too, in which a court arrays a jury by calling its members one at a time. A subject such as she or it tells this form apart from the plural noun.

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