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sorter
Variant of sort
noun
- any group of persons or things related by having something in common; kind; class
- quality or type; nature: remarks of that sort
- Archaic manner or way
- Comput. the act or an instance of sorting
- Printing any of the kinds of characters in a font of type
transitive verb
to place, separate, or arrange according to class or kind: often with out
intransitive verb
- Archaic to associate; consort
- Archaic to harmonize or agree; suit
- Comput. to arrange a group of records in a particular way, as chronologically or alphabetically, so that they can be accessed more efficiently
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