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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of separating into sorts.

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  • verb Present participle of sort.
  • noun ordering
  • noun categorizing

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
  • noun grouping by class or kind or size
  • noun the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories

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