Array and Slice

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 share of something.
  • usage: "a slice of the company's revenue"
  • synonyms: piece
• A serving that has been cut from a larger portion.
  • usage: "a piece of pie"; "a slice of bread"
  • synonyms: piece
• A wound made by cutting.
  • usage: "he put a bandage over the cut"
  • synonyms: cut, gash, slash
• A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
  • usage: "he took lessons to cure his slicing"
  • synonyms: fade, slicing
• A thin flat piece cut off of some object.
• A spatula for spreading paint or ink.

verb

• Make a clean cut through.
  • usage: "slit her throat"
  • synonyms: slit
• Hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction.
• Cut into slices.
  • usage: "Slice the salami, please"
  • synonyms: slice up
• Hit a ball so that it causes a backspin. .

• (v.t.) To hit (the ball) so that the face of the club draws across the face of the ball and deflects it.
• (v.t.) A removable sliding bottom to galley.
• (v.t.) One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
• (v.t.) A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
• (v.t.) To cut into parts; to divide.
• (v.t.) A salver, platter or tray.
• (v.t.) To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.
• (v.t.) To cut into thin pieces or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.
• (v.t.) A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.
• (v.t.) A broad, thin piece of plaster.
• (v.t.) That which is thin and broad, like a slice.
• (v.t.) A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.

(DoD) An average logistic planning factor used to obtain estimates of requirements for personnel and materiel. (e.g., a personnel slice generally consists of the total strength of the stated basic combatant elements, plus its proportionate share of all supporting and higher headquarters personnel.)