Arraying and Disposition

(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Array.

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.