What does sorting mean?
Definitions for sorting
sort·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
sort, sortingnoun
an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
"the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting"
classification, categorization, categorisation, sortingnoun
the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
sortingnoun
grouping by class or kind or size
Wiktionary
sortingnoun
ordering
sortingnoun
categorizing
ChatGPT
sorting
Sorting is a process of arranging items or data in a specific order according to certain rules or criteria. This can be done in ascending or descending order, numerically or alphabetically, or according to other methods of organization. In computing, sorting algorithms are commonly used to organize and analyze data effectively.
Webster Dictionary
Sorting
of Sort
Wikidata
Sorting
Sorting is any process of arranging items in some sequence and/or in different sets, and accordingly, it has two common, yet distinct meanings: ⁕ordering: arranging items of the same kind, class, nature, etc. in some ordered sequence, ⁕categorizing: grouping and labeling items with similar properties together.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
sorting
In counterdrug operations, the process involved in differentiating traffic which could be involved in drug trafficking from legitimate air traffic. See also counterdrug operations.
Editors Contribution
sortingverb
Verb form of the word sort.
They were sorting out the plans for their wedding together, making loving and united choices to ensure their day was simple, loving, unifying, peaceful with fun, love, unity, dancing, singing and trampolining !
Submitted by MaryC on March 19, 2020
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Anagrams for sorting »
storing
trigons
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sorting in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sorting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of sorting in a Sentence
We're sorting through earnings. It's mixed, but there's no drastic change to the general economic recovery.
I fully expect smaller places to become more conservative and larger places to become more Democratic, if you believe geographic sorting / arbitrage is happening, then where people live and how they live is increasingly important in predicting their views on politics.
I am leery of attributing everything bad in nature to climate change, sorting out what's specifically due to climate change and what's not is a difficult and sometimes impossible task. That said, it's clear climate is changing all over the world, including in Nepal.
China will never interfere in the internal affairs of the United States, and we trust that the American people are capable of sorting out their own problems.
We are still sorting through a lot of emotions; 24 hours ago we were wrapping people's body parts in bags, so on the one hand (there is) the reality of that ... and on the second hand, we are climbers and this is sort of what we do. And so, does it make sense to continue?
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- třídění, kategorizaceCzech
- מִיוּןHebrew
- 選別Japanese
- подредување, сортирањеMacedonian
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