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sorting::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | categorisation, categorization, classification |
| Type of | basic cognitive process |
| Has types | attribution, appraisal, cross-classification, cross-division, subsumption, coordination, ascription, assessment |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | grouping |
| Has types | separation, triage |
| Derivation | sort |
Examples of sorting
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The list is mind-boggling, but Mr. Miller does a good job of sorting it all out.
From the washingtontimes.com
Sorting out my thoughts onto the small yellow lined pad was strangely rewarding.
From the post-gazette.com
In May the SEC released tentative guidance, which experts are still sorting out.
From the businessweek.com
She was up until 4am most days prior to the holiday sorting out all the packing.
From the guardian.co.uk
The sorting wasn't a scene straight out of the movies but it was special enough.
From the post-gazette.com
Viking is going through records, sorting out who is owed refunds or merchandise.
From the thenewstribune.com
The time pressure means I don't have the luxury of sorting things out as I read.
From the washingtonpost.com
Effectively this is equivalent to sorting all the geometry on a per pixel basis.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Sorting out exactly what they want a new Serbia to look like may take some time.
From the time.com
- Kind: a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?"
- Screen: examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"
- Classify: arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
- An approximate definition or example; "she wore a sort of magenta dress"; "she served a creamy sort of dessert thing"
- A person of a particular character or nature; "what sort of person is he?"; "he's a good sort"
- An operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion; "the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting"
- The Treaty Between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions (SORT), better known as the Moscow Treaty "represents an important element of the new strategic relationship between the United States and Russia". ...
- Sort is a function in C++ Standard Library that takes two random-access iterators, the start and the end, as arguments and performs a comparison sort on the range of elements between the two iterators, front-inclusive and end-exclusive. ...
- In computer science and mathematics, a sorting algorithm is an algorithm that puts elements of a list in a certain order. The most-used orders are numerical order and lexicographical order. ...
