ARRAYS Synonyms: 291 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of array

as in clusters

a number of things considered as a unit an array of baseball gloves in the corner of his room

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as in groups

a usually small number of persons considered as a unit a motley array of travelers waiting for the bus

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as in sequences

the way objects in space or events in time are arranged or follow one another a marching band's carefully choreographed array

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as in armies

a large body of men and women organized for land warfare feudal lords depended upon their array for defense

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verb

present tense third-person singular of array

as in decorates

to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming a door arrayed for the holidays with a beautiful evergreen wreath

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as in clothes

to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes arrayed in a wedding dress that has been handed down in the family for generations

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as in arranges

to put into a particular arrangement arrayed his baseball cards in order of their rarity and consequent monetary value

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Recent Examples of arrays

Noun

The 937-pound (425-kilogram) spacecraft will launch into an initial testing orbit on June 27 and perform a series of checkouts to ensure that its basic systems (three main engines, 16 reaction control thrusters, solar arrays, robotic arms) are all working properly. —

Tariq Malik, Space.com, 19 June 2026 At that time, engineers were racing to piece together the Link satellite from a mix of structural components, fuel tanks, solar arrays, thrusters, and robotic arms designed to grab onto Swift more than 200 miles above the planet. —

Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 19 June 2026 Duan, who was inspired to start this work in 2012 by NASA’s SPS-ALPHA concept of modular satellite arrays, envisions large-scale systems. —

Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 19 June 2026 The arrays monitor ocean conditions, track marine heatwaves and collect data on how the ocean influences hurricanes and other events. —

Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 18 June 2026 Radiators and solar arrays can consume 65 to 70 percent of total satellite mass, and space-grade photovoltaics run orders of magnitude more expensive than terrestrial equivalents. —

IEEE Spectrum, 11 June 2026 If launch costs fall dramatically, enormous solar arrays in orbit become easier to imagine. —

Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026 The hotel has put conservation at its core, visible in a shimmering field of floating solar panels, which I am told is one of the largest arrays in southeast Asia. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026 Meanwhile, in the Pacific Northwest, the dismantling of ocean arrays will have more-immediate impacts to commercial fishing and maritime industries. —

Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 3 June 2026

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Also, this quarter Enhanced Cyber Anomaly Detection will spot coordinated, suspicious login patterns and behavior that individual storage arrays might miss. —

Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026 For example, the solar arrays on Link might malfunction, Wilson said. —

Tariq Malik, Space.com, 19 June 2026 Radio arrays typically must save the raw feeds from each antenna for subsequent processing, requiring enormous computational and data storage resources. —

Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 18 June 2026 What would earth look like after a few hundred years of solar-panel arrays, wind turbines, carbon capture, stratospheric geoengineering? —

Literary Hub, 18 June 2026 The company states the three satellites are the largest commercial communications arrays ever deployed in LEO, measuring about 2,400 square feet. —

Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 June 2026 Lowering satellite power needs Modern military satellites increasingly rely on adaptive antenna arrays that can rapidly redirect signals and block interference. —

Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 June 2026 The BlueBird 7 satellite, with communication arrays as large as 2,400 square feet, would be the largest satellites ever commercially deployed in low-Earth orbit, AST SpaceMobile said in a press release. —

Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2026 Atomic-6’s hardware contributions include its Light Wing solar arrays for electricity generation, its Hot Wing radiator systems for cooling and its Space Armor structures for debris protection. —

Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 13 Apr. 2026

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Noun

This medium-sized, rounded tree is appreciated for its fragrant white flower clusters in mid-to-late spring and year-round features.

— Steve Bender, Southern Living, 21 June 2026
The first chapter of the AI investment cycle — the infrastructure buildout of GPU clusters, data centers, and networking fabric that drove NVIDIA's stock up several hundred percent and established the semiconductor complex as one of the decade's defining trades — is not over.

— Jason Kirsch, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026