Sort may refer to:
- Sorting, any process of arranging items in sequence or in sets
- Sorting algorithm, any algorithm 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 (typesetting), a piece of metal type
- Sort, Lleida, a town in Catalonia
- Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, a treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation
- Special Operations Response Team, a group trained to respond to disturbances at a correctional facility
- In mathematical logic, a domain in a many-sorted structure
- Symantec Operations Readiness Tools, a web-based suite of services from Symantec Corporation
Famous quotes containing the word sort:
“The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)
“This sort of adoration of the real
Is but a heightening of the beau ideal.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“The women of my mother’s generation had, in the main, only one decision to make about their lives: who they would marry. From that, so much else followed: where they would live, in what sort of conditions, whether they would be happy or sad or, so often, a bit of both. There were roles and there were rules.”
—Anna Quindlen (20th century)