(advertising) An advertising research technique that assesses individual phrases and verbal ideas in a commercial by the audience's levels of attention or recall, relevance, and feelings.

(geology) A form of graded bedding that occurs at the bottom of a body of water. The principle says that smaller colloids (particles) settle farther in the strata while larger particles settle closer to the source of water.

present participle of sort out

simple past tense and past participle of sort out

(computing) A sorting algorithm in which pairs of neighboring values are compared and swapped into the right order if necessary in the innermost loop.

(banking, UK, Ireland) A code assigned to a specific branch of a bank.

(computing) Any of various sorting algorithms in which items are processed according to the value of each digit or character in turn

(computing) Synonym of mergesort

(computing) A sorting algorithm that begins with quicksort and switches to heapsort when the recursion depth exceeds a level based on (the logarithm of) the number of elements being sorted.

(computing theory) A sorting algorithm that partitions an array into a number of buckets (groups of elements) which are then individually sorted, either recursively or using some other algorithm.