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ordered array

(data structure)

Definition: An array whose items have some order. Usually, it means a sorted array, but may mean not fully ordered, for example, all values less than the median are in the first half.

Author: PR


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Patrick Rodgers, "ordered array", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 17 December 2004. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/orderedarry.html