Sort

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)