Definition of Sort. Meaning of Sort. Synonyms of Sort

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Definition of Sort

Sort
Sort Sort, n. [F. sorl, L. sors, sortis. See Sort kind.] Chance; lot; destiny. [Obs.] By aventure, or sort, or cas [chance]. --Chaucer. Let blockish Ajax draw The sort to fight with Hector. --Shak.
Sort
Sort Sort, v. i. 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; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize. They are happy whose natures sort with their vocations. --Bacon. Things sort not to my will. --herbert. I can not tell you precisely how they sorted. --Sir W. Scott.

Meaning of Sort from wikipedia

- Look up sort in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sort may refer to: Sorting, any process of arranging items in sequence or in sets Sorting algorithm, any...
- Quicksort is an efficient, general-purpose sorting algorithm. Quicksort was developed by British computer scientist Tony ****e in 1959 and published in...
- Insertion sort is a simple sorting algorithm that builds the final sorted array (or list) one item at a time by comparisons. It is much less efficient...
- In computer science, a sorting algorithm is an algorithm that puts elements of a list into an order. The most frequently used orders are numerical order...
- Bubble sort, sometimes referred to as sinking sort, is a simple sorting algorithm that repeatedly steps through the input list element by element, comparing...
- of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions (SORT), also known as the Treaty of Moscow, was a strategic arms reduction treaty...
- Sorting refers to ordering data in an increasing or decreasing manner according to some linear relationship among the data items. ordering: arranging...
- science, Merge Sort (also commonly spelled as mergesort and as merge-sort) is an efficient, general-purpose, and comparison-based sorting algorithm. Most...
- Look up sorted in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sorted may refer to: Sorted (TV series), a BBC television series "Sorted for E's & Wizz", a 1995 Pulp...
- In computer science, bogosort (also known as permutation sort and stupid sort) is a sorting algorithm based on the generate and test paradigm. The function...