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Array and Sequence

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.
  • 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"
  • Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.

noun

  • Serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern.
    • usage: "the sequence of names was alphabetical"; "he invented a technique to determine the sequence of base pairs in DNA"
  • A following of one thing after another in time.
    • usage: "the doctor saw a sequence of patients"
  • Film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie.
  • The action of following in order.
    • usage: "he played the trumps in sequence"
  • Several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys.

verb

  • Arrange in a sequence.
  • Determine the order of constituents in.
    • usage: "They sequenced the human genome"