Array and Disposition

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

• Your usual mood.
  • usage: "he has a happy disposition"
  • synonyms: temperament
• The act or means of getting rid of something.
  • synonyms: disposal
• An attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others.
  • usage: "he had an inclination to give up too easily"; "a tendency to be too strict"
  • synonyms: inclination, tendency
• A natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing.
  • usage: "a swelling with a disposition to rupture"

• (n.) The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.
• (n.) Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.
• (n.) The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.
• (n.) Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.
• (n.) Mood; humor.
• (n.) Natural or prevailing spirit or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind.

(DoD, NATO) Distribution of the elements of a command within an area; usually the exact location of each unit headquarters and the deployment of the forces subordinate to it.
(DoD, NATO) A prescribed arrangement of the stations to be occupied by the several formations and single ships of a fleet, or major subdivisions of a fleet, for any purpose, such as cruising, approach, maintaining contact, or battle.
(DoD, NATO) A prescribed arrangement of all the tactical units composing a flight or group of aircraft. See also deployment; dispersion.