Array and Cycle

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

cycle

An interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs.
- usage: "the never-ending cycle of the seasons"
- synonyms: rhythm, round
A series of poems or songs on the same theme.
- usage: "Schubert's song cycles"
A periodically repeated sequence of events.
- usage: "a cycle of reprisal and retaliation"
The unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second.
- synonyms: hertz, Hz, cycle per second, cycles/second, cps
A single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon.
- usage: "a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons"
- synonyms: oscillation
A wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals.
- synonyms: bicycle, bike, wheel

Cause to go through a recurring sequence.
- usage: "cycle the laundry in this washing program"
Pass through a cycle.
- usage: "This machine automatically cycles"
Ride a motorcycle.
- synonyms: motorbike, motorcycle
Ride a bicycle.
- synonyms: bicycle, bike, pedal, wheel
Recur in repeating sequences. .

(n.) A bicycle or tricycle or other light velocipede.
(n.) One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves.
(n.) An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
(n.) An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
(n.) An age; a long period of time.
(v.i.) To ride a bicycle, tricycle or other form of cycle.
(n.) An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons or of the year.
(n.) The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins.
(v.i.) To pass through a cycle of changes; to recur in cycles.
(n.) A complete positive and negative wave of an alternating current; one period. The number of cycles (per second) is a measure of the frequency of an alternating current.
(n.) A series of operations in which heat is imparted to (or taken away from) a working substance which by its expansion gives up a part of its internal energy in the form of mechanical work (or being compressed increases its internal energy) and is again brought back to its original state.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Cycle is a variation where a point of observation returns to its origin.