Array and Chain

array

An orderly arrangement.
- usage: "an array of troops in battle order"
An impressive display.
- usage: "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall"
Especially fine or decorative clothing.
- synonyms: raiment, regalia
An arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics.

Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line.
- usage: "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"
- synonyms: range, lay out, set out
Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.
- synonyms: align

(n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
(n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied especially to dress of a splendid kind.
(n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
(n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
(n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.
(n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
(n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
(n.) An imposing series of things.
(n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
(n.) The panel itself.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

chain

A series of things depending on each other as if linked together.
- usage: "the chain of command"; "a complicated concatenation of circumstances"
- synonyms: concatenation
Chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule. ()
- synonyms: chemical chain
A series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament.
Business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership. (
Anything that acts as a restraint.
A unit of length.
British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979.
- synonyms: Ernst Boris Chain, Sir Ernst Boris Chain
A series of hills or mountains.
- usage: "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"
- synonyms: range, mountain range, range of mountains, mountain chain, chain of mountains
A linked or connected series of objects.
- usage: "a chain of daisies"
A necklace made by a stringing objects together.
- usage: "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls";
- synonyms: string, strand

(v.t.) To fasten, bind or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog.
(n.) A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas.
(n.) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
(v.t.) To unite closely and strongly.
(v.t.) To keep in slavery; to enslave.
(n.) An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land.
(v.t.) To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor.
(v.t.) To measure with the chain.
(n.) That which confines, fetters or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit.
(n.) A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc.
(n.) The warp threads of a web.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

CHAIN is an old unit of measurement of land, measuring 66 feet in length. A chain equals 100 links, each 0. 66 feet in length.