DOCS-1053 array and compound conditional operators

source/reference/operators.txt

@@ -50,18 +50,44 @@ This statement returns all documents with ``field`` between
 
 .. note::
 
-   Fields containing arrays match conditional operators, if only one
-   item matches. Therefore, the following query:
+   If the field contains an array and the query has multiple
+   conditional operators, the field as a whole will match if either a
+   single array element meets the conditions or a combination of array
+   elements meet the conditions.
+
+.. example:: Query a field that contains an array.
+
+   A collection ``students`` contains the following documents where the
+   ``score`` field contains an array of values:
 
    .. code-block:: javascript
 
-      db.collection.find( { field: { $gt:0, $lt:2 } } );
+      { "_id" : 1, "score" : [ -1, 3 ] }
+      { "_id" : 2, "score" : [ 1, 5 ] }
+      { "_id" : 3, "score" : [ 5, 5 ] }
 
-Will match a document that contains the following field:
+   Then, the following query:
 
-.. code-block:: javascript
+   .. code-block:: javascript
+
+      db.students.find( { score: { $gt: 0, $lt: 2 } } )
+
+   Will match the following documents:
+
+   .. code-block:: javascript
+
+      { "_id" : 1, "score" : [ -1, 3 ] }
+      { "_id" : 2, "score" : [ 1, 5 ] }
+
+   - In the document with ``_id`` equal to ``1``, the ``score: [ -1, 3
+     ]`` as a whole meets the specified conditions since the element
+     ``-1`` meets the ``$lt: 2`` condition and the element ``3`` meets
+     the ``$gt: 0`` condition.
 
-  { field: [-1,3] }
+   - In the document with ``_id`` equal to ``2``, the ``score: [ 1, 5
+     ]`` as a whole meets the specified conditions since the element
+     ``1`` meets both the ``$lt: 2`` condition and the ``$gt: 0``
+     condition.
 
 .. index:: query selectors; logical
 .. _query-selectors-logical: