Array and Scan

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

• The act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region.
  • usage: "he made a thorough scan of the beach with his binoculars"
• An image produced by scanning.
  • usage: "he analyzed the brain scan"; "you could see the tumor in the CAT scan"
  • synonyms: CAT scan

verb

• Examine minutely or intensely.
  • usage: "the surgeon scanned the X-ray"
• Examine hastily.
  • usage: "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"
  • synonyms: skim, rake, glance over, run down
• Make a wide, sweeping search of.
  • usage: "The beams scanned the night sky"
• Conform to a metrical pattern.
• Move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image.
• Read metrically.
  • usage: "scan verses"
• Obtain data from magnetic tapes.
  • usage: "This dictionary can be read by the computer"
  • synonyms: read

(v.t.) To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.

(DoD) In electronic intelligence, the motion of an electronic beam through space looking for a target. Scanning is produced by the motion of the antenna or by lobe switching. See also electronic intelligence.
(DoD) The path periodically followed by a radiation beam.