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.

Alternative form of resort (Etymology 2, to sort again)

simple past tense and past participle of re-sort