1. (noun)assortment, mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri, motley a collection containing a variety of sorts of things "a great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety of disorders"; "a veritable smorgasbord of religions"
2. (noun)categorization, categorisation, classification, compartmentalization, compartmentalisation, assortment the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the sametype