What is an array?

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#1

An arrangement of objects, pictures, or numbers in rows and columns is called an array. Arrays are useful representations of multiplication concepts (among other ideas in mathematics).

  • Arrays are the collection of similar types of data stored at contiguous memory locations.
  • It is the simplest data structure where the data element can be accessed randomly just by using its index number.
#2

Array is an indexed fixed no. of homogeneous elements.

Above is the most basic and most appropriate definition.Three key words

  1. indexed-Insertion order is preserved in arrays.
  2. Fixed No.-Size of an Array is Fixed.
  3. Homogeneous-Similar objects are placed inside it.eg-if we made the object of class student all objects placed inside a specified array are of student type.

But in laymen terms array is for storing elements in a specified order so that their is no problem to access.