Question

what is a array

Answer 1

dictionary meaning of array is collection of similar objects or items.

so here array is a technique to reserve number of memory locations to store multiple values of same type.

Array is collection of memory blocks to store multiple values of same type

like int arr[5];

here arr is array;

memory locations in array are represented by index number e.g.

now we can store five integer values into the arr.

Answer 2

An array is a data structure, which can store a fixed-size collection of elements of the same data type. An array is used to store a collection of data, but it is often more useful to think of an array as a collection of variables of the same type.