The English word "array" is translated into Swedish as "f lt" which is retranslated into English as "field". We may therefore perhaps use the word field either by mistake or as a suitable name of a specific array. A new feature of Fortran 90 is that you can work directly with a whole array or an array section without explicit (or implicit) DO -loops. ... An array is defined to have a shape given by its number of dimensions (called " rank ") and the extent for each one of these. ...