(computing theory) A sorting algorithm that divides the input list into two sublists — items already sorted, and items not yet sorted — and gradually transfers elements from one list to the other.

plural of sort code

Process by which waste is separated into different elements

A building in which mail is collected together, then sorted prior to delivery.

plural of sorting office

(biochemistry) The process that moves proteins to appropriate locations in a cell

(informal) Someone who is likeable and dependable. / (Australia, informal) A desirable woman.

(graph theory, computer science) An ordering of the vertices of a directed graph such that if an edge goes from vertex u to vertex v then u precedes v in the ordering.

The middle class, especially in 18th-century Britain.

(mathematics) The mathematical problem of sorting a disordered stack of pancakes in order of size when a spatula can be inserted at any point in the stack and used to flip all pancakes above it.