Array and Group

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

• Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit.
  • synonyms: grouping
• Chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule.
  • synonyms: radical, chemical group
• A set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse.
  • synonyms: mathematical group

verb

• Arrange into a group or groups.
  • usage: "Can you group these shapes together"
• Form a group or group together.
  • synonyms: aggroup

• (n.) A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus or a whole genus or certain genera or even several orders.
• (n.) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; -- sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
• (n.) A cluster, crowd or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.
• (n.) To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of.
• (n.) An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.

GROUP is a number of individual companies assembled together; often having some unifying relationship.

(DoD) A flexible administrative and tactical unit composed of either two or more battalions or two or more squadrons. The term also applies to combat support and combat service support units.
(DoD) A long-standing functional organization that is formed to support a broad function within a joint force commander's headquarters. Also called GP.
(DoD) A number of ships and/or aircraft, normally a subdivision of a force, assigned for a specific purpose.