Look up: sort

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   sort
   [n] - an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion 2. [n] - a person of a particular character or nature 3. [n] - an approximate definition or example
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   A computer term meaning to reorganize and/or to filter information in the process of the reorganization.
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   1. (application, algorithm) To arrange a collection of items in some specified order. The items - records in a file or data structures in memory - consist of one or more fields or members. One of these fields is designated as the 'sort key' which means the records will be ordered according to the value of that field. Sometimes a sequence of key ...
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   arranging physical units into a sequence Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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   Definition (keystage 3) To put a collection of objects into order according to some rule.
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   Sort noun [ French sorl , Latin sors , sortis . See Sort kind.] Chance; lot; destiny. [ Obsolete] « By aventure, or sort , or cas [ chance].» Chaucer. « Let blockish Ajax draw The sort to fight with Hector.» Shak.
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   Sort noun [ French sorie (cf. Italian sorta , sorte ), from Latin sors , sorti , a lot, part, probably akin to serere to connect. See Series , and confer Assort , Consort , Resort , Sorcery , Sort lot.] 1. A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the ...
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   Sort transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sorted ; present participle & verbal noun Sorting .] 1. To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness. « Rays whi ...
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   Sort intransitive verb 1. To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree. « Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals in the earth, and minerals with minerals.» Woodward. « The illiberality of parents towards children makes them base, and sort with any company.» Bacon. 2. To suit; t ...
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    1. A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterised by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems. ... 2. Manner; form of being or acting. 'Which for my part I covet to perform, In sort as through the world I did proclaim.' (Spenser) 'Fl ...
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    noun an approximate definition or example; `she wore a sort of magenta dress`; `she served a creamy sort of dessert thing`
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    sorting noun an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion; `the bottleneck in mail delivery it the process of sorting`
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    noun a person of a particular character or nature; `what sort of person is he?`; `he`s a good sort`
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    `Sort` may mean * Sorting, any process of arranging items in sequence or in sets ** Sorting algorithm, a computer process for arranging elements in lists ** Sort (Unix), a Unix utility which sorts the lines of a file ** Sort (C++), a function in the C++ Standard Template Library ** Sort, an alternative to bird used in ballinteer created by andrew deegan ** sorts are used to achieve a partitioning of the universe into different types in many-so...
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    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` with both parties agreeing to limit their nuclear arsenal to 1700-2200 operationally deployed warheads each. It was signed in Moscow on May 24, 2002. SORT came into force on June 1, 2003 a...
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    • (v. t.) To reduce to order from a confused state. • (v. t.) To choose from a number; to select; to cull. • (n.) A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems. • (v. ...
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