ARRAYS, Synonyms: 291 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

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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

Indeed, the need for RTGs was laid bare by Curiosity and Perseverance's predecessors, the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which were purely solar powered but suffered from diminishing power as Martian dust covered their solar arrays. —

Keith Cooper, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2026 Also, Intel notes that these cards can be set up in arrays of two, four, or eight cards in a workstation or server rack module, to enable multiple AI models queued up in one workstation as needed, or to pool memory allowances for AI models that are too big for one card's memory allocation. —

Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026 Today that’s done using photovoltaic solar arrays. —

Lee Billings, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2026 For about 6 1/2 hours, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams will be outside the orbiting laboratory doing work to lay the groundwork for the future installation of solar arrays. —

Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 17 Mar. 2026 While traditional radar systems use large antenna arrays and complex computational algorithms to interpret data, EyeDAR’s physical design performs the processing. —

Etiido Uko march 14, New Atlas, 14 Mar. 2026 The beautiful arrays of purple, orange and white flowers are still vibrant since first appearing in January. —

Emilee Coblentz, Outside, 13 Mar. 2026 Community solar, in which residents get a discount on their bills for subscribing as a group to small solar arrays nearby, was designed to help low-income residents, apartment dwellers, renters and others who can’t put panels on their own roofs. —

Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026 Aikido envisions eventually sprinkling its data centers among large arrays of offshore turbines to tap into that larger power infrastructure. —

IEEE Spectrum, 3 Mar. 2026

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The satellites stand out for their exceptionally large solar arrays. —

Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026 At a cost that Payload Research estimates at $35 million each, that’s $350 billion in cash for the like of krypton-gas burners, solar arrays, and stainless steel alloy. —

Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2026 But the censor does prohibit us from putting out live broadcasts of intercepts that could reveal the accuracy of Iranian ballistic missiles or the location of interceptor missile arrays. —

Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 6 Mar. 2026 However, new constellations like Amazon Leo and AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird satellite arrays only deepen the problem. —

Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 26 Jan. 2026 This is enabled by collecting data using telescope arrays like CHARA, which is made up of dozens of antennas spread across a large area that, when all trained on the same point in the sky, act as one massive telescope. —

Frank Landymore, Futurism, 21 Jan. 2026 The company's recent shift to support external storage arrays directly addresses this limitation. —

Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026 The scientists fabricated arrays that possessed up to 129,500 metalenses. —

IEEE Spectrum, 17 Dec. 2025 Since then, researchers around the world have aimed their telescopes and sensitive equipment arrays at it as the comet continues its 130,000 mile-per-hour journey through our stellar neighborhood. —

Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for arrays

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This leads to a network of galaxies, galaxy groups, galaxy clusters, and large-scale filaments of structure, with enormous cosmic voids between them.

— Big Think, Big Think, 26 Mar. 2026
The project is designed to meet surging demand for the heavy-lift rockets needed to put clusters of satellites into orbit.

— Jim Wyss, Bloomberg, 26 Mar. 2026