علوم مهندسى : طبقه بندى کامپيوتر : مرتب نمودن

an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion(n)

Synonyms: sort sorting

Hypernyms: operation

Examples: the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting

the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories(n)

Synonyms: categorisation categorization classification sorting

Hyponyms: appraisal ascription assessment attribution coordination cross-classification cross-division subsumption

Hypernyms: basic cognitive process

grouping by class or kind or size(n)

Synonyms: sorting

Hyponyms: separation triage

Hypernyms: grouping

Sorting refers to ordering data in an increasing or decreasing manner according to some linear relationship among the data items.

  1. ordering: arranging items in a sequence ordered by some criterion;
  2. categorizing: grouping items with similar properties.