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Sorting

To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.

📖 Definitions of "Sorting"

verb

1
To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
"Sort the letters in those bags into a separate pile for each language."
2
To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
"Sort those bells into a row in ascending sequence of pitch."
3
To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
4
To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.

noun

3 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
sortnoun	A general type.
classificationnoun	The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
categorizationnoun	The process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
categorizationnoun	The process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes.
classificationnoun	The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
sorternoun	A machine or algorithm that performs sorting.
sortationnoun	(countable) A process or instance of sorting.
ordernoun	(countable) A command.
orderingnoun	(uncountable) The placement of an order for goods or services.
arrangingnoun	Arrangement.
arrangeverb	(transitive) To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.
triagenoun	(medicine) The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury).
classifying	That serves to classify.
classifyverb	to identify by or divide into classes; to categorize
countingnoun	The act by which something is counted.
countnoun	(intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.
rankingnoun	One’s relative placement in a list.
gradingnoun	A rank or grade.
categorisationnoun	(British spelling) Alternative form of categorization. [A group of things arranged by category.]
ratingnoun	A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something.
qualificationnoun	The act or process of qualifying for a position, achievement etc.
managingnoun	management
triernoun	One who tries; one who makes experiments or examines anything by a test or standard.