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:

    Who will join in the march to the Rocky Mountains with me, a sort of high-pressure-double-cylinder-go-it-ahead-forty-wildcats- tearin’ sort of a feller?... Git out of this warming-pan, ye holly-hocks, and go out to the West where you may be seen.
    —Administration in the State of Miss, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.
    Socrates (469–399 B.C.)