In Computer Science
Generally, a collection of data items that can be selected by indices computed at run-time, including:
- Array data structure, an arrangement of items at equally spaced addresses in computer memory
- Array data type, used in a programming language to specify a variable that can be indexed
- Associative array, an abstract data structure model that generalizes arrays to arbitrary indices
or various kinds of the above, such as
- Bit array or bit vector
- Dynamic array, allocated at run time
- Parallel array of records, with each field stored as a separate array
- Sparse array, with most elements omitted, to store a sparse matrix
- Variable-length array
- Jagged array, where the rows have different lengths individually
or various related concepts:
- Array processor, a computer to process arrays of data (not to be confused with a processor array)
- Array programming, using matrix algebra notation in programs (not the same as array processing)
- Array slicing, the extraction of sub-arrays of an array
or also:
- Global Arrays, a library for parallel processing
- Intel Array Visualizer, a piece of scientific graphics software
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