What is sort?

  • (noun): A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality.
    Synonyms: kind, form, variety
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on sort, sorts:

A Sort Of Homecoming
... Several artistic works are entitled "A Sort of Homecoming." Among them are A Sort of Homecoming (song) A Sort of Homecoming (album) The phrase was coined by Paul Celan to refer to ...
Sorted Array - Methods
... Some of them are selection sort, bubble sort, insertion sort, merge sort, quicksort, heapsort, and counting sort ...
Antidotes (album) - Recording
... we would get the tracks down, get all of the sort of essential parts down and then, halfway through the recording he kind of came in, and when we were doing overdubs and that kind ...
Coggs V Bernard - Judgment
... of bailment “ And there are six sorts of bailments ... The first sort of bailment is, a bare naked bailment of goods, delivered by one man to another to keep for the use of the bailor and this I call a depositum, and it is that ... The second sort is, when goods or chattels that are useful, are lent to a friend gratis, to be used by him and this is called commodatum, because the thing is to be restored in specie ...
Strand Sort
... Strand sort is a sorting algorithm ... It is a comparison sort due to its use of comparisons when removing strands and when merging them into the sorted array ... The strand sort algorithm is O(n2) in the average case ...

More definitions of "sort":

  • (noun): An operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion.
    Synonyms: sorting
  • (noun): An approximate definition or example.
    Example: "She wore a sort of magenta dress"; "she served a creamy sort of dessert thing"
  • (noun): A person of a particular character or nature.
    Example: "What sort of person is he?"; "he's a good sort"

Famous quotes containing the word sort:

    “Self-interest speaks all sort of languages, and plays all sort of roles—even that of disinterest.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “You say your own soul supplies you with some sort of an idea or image of God. But at the same time you acknowledge you have, properly speaking, no idea of your own soul. You even affirm that spirits are a sort of beings altogether different from ideas. Consequently that no idea can be like a spirit. We have therefore no idea of any spirit.”
    —George Berkeley (1685–1753)

    “The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)