Array and Demonstration

noun

• 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.

verb

• 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.

noun

• A show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view.
  • usage: "the presentation of new data"; "he gave the customer a demonstration"
  • synonyms: presentation, presentment
• A show of military force or preparedness.
  • usage: "he confused the enemy with feints and demonstrations"
• A public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature. )
  • usage: "there were violent demonstrations against the war"
  • synonyms: manifestation
• Proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion.
  • synonyms: monstrance
• A visual presentation showing how something works.
  • usage: "the lecture was accompanied by dramatic demonstrations"; "the lecturer shot off a pistol as a demonstration of the startle response"
  • synonyms: demo

• (n.) The act of proving by the syllogistic process or the proof itself.
• (n.) A course of reasoning showing that a certain result is a necessary consequence of assumed premises; -- these premises being definitions, axioms, and previously established propositions.
• (n.) The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt; indubitable evidence, to the senses or reason.
• (n.) The exhibition and explanation of a dissection or other anatomical preparation.
• (n.) (Mil.) a decisive exhibition of force or a movement indicating an attack.
• (n.) An expression, as of the feelings, by outward signs; a manifestation; a show.

(DoD) In military deception, a show of force in an area where a decision is not sought that is made to deceive an adversary. It is similar to a feint but no actual contact with the adversary is intended.
(DoD) An attack or show of force on a front where a decision is not sought, made with the aim of deceiving the enemy. See also amphibious demonstration; diversion; diversionary attack.