arrangement

Everyday

1. A plan made in advance for something to happen (travel arrangements). tree →
2. An agreement between people (we have an arrangement to share the car). tree →
3. The way things are put in order or in a pattern (an arrangement of chairs, a flower arrangement). tree →
4. (maths) One possible order of a set of things. tree →
5. (music) A version of a piece of music written for certain instruments or voices. tree →

In the lessons

In maths, arrangements are different orders of objects or digits (how many arrangements of the letters A, B, C?) and arrays (an arrangement of 3 rows of 4). In everyday life, plans for parties, trips and pick-ups. Phrases: «make arrangements», «by arrangement», «seating arrangement», «flower arrangement».

Examples

• We made arrangements to meet at the park. tree →
• Mum and Mrs Brown have an arrangement to share the school run. tree →
• The chairs were in an arrangement of 5 rows of 6. tree →
• How many arrangements of the letters C, A, T are there? tree →
• She made a lovely flower arrangement. tree →
• The band played a new arrangement of the song. tree →
• Visits are by arrangement only. tree →
• But for each guest the neatest and pleasantest arrangement had been made. tree →

Note

Countable. Verb «arrange». In maths: an array arrangement of 4 rows of 5 has 4 × 5 = 20 objects; the number of different orders of 3 different things is 3 × 2 × 1 = 6. «Make arrangements» is usually plural.

In Jewish tradition

In maths, arrangements are different orders of objects or digits (how many arrangements of the letters A, B, C?) and arrays (an arrangement of 3 rows of 4). In everyday life, plans for parties, trips and pick-ups. Phrases: «make arrangements», «by arrangement», «seating arrangement», «flower arrangement».

Examples

• But this arrangement is undoubtedly an interpolation of a later time, as the author of the book "Yezirah" lived many years before Ptolemy. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
• The grouping of the processes of origin into an arrangement, at once alphabetic and numeral, is one only to be found in Semitic authors. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
• of an infinity of combinations and arrangements, sufficient to (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →

Note

Countable. Verb «arrange». In maths: an array arrangement of 4 rows of 5 has 4 × 5 = 20 objects; the number of different orders of 3 different things is 3 × 2 × 1 = 6. «Make arrangements» is usually plural.