Any complete array of devices used in an endeavor; as, to deploy the full panoply of writer's techniques.

a complete and impressive array

(1) a splendid or striking array, (2) something that covers and protects. [sentence example: U.S. citizens in Taiwan are entitled to the full panoply of Bill of Rights protections.

A panoply is a complete suit of armour. The word represents the Gr. iravoirXtct (ir~r, all, and ~hrXa, arms), the full armour of a hoplite or heavy-armed soldier, i.e. the shield, breastplate, helmet and greaves, together with the sword and lance. As applied to armour of a later date, panoply did not come into use till the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century, and was then used of the complete suits of plate-armour covering the whole body.