noun
1. the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
• Syn: ↑classification, ↑categorization, ↑categorisation
• Derivationally related forms: ↑categorize (for: ↑categorization), ↑classify (for: ↑classification)
• Hypernyms: ↑basic cognitive process
• Hyponyms:
↑coordination, ↑appraisal, ↑assessment, ↑attribution, ↑ascription, ↑cross-classification, ↑cross-division, ↑subsumption
2. an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
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the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting
• Syn: ↑sort
• Hypernyms: ↑operation
3. grouping by class or kind or size
• Derivationally related forms: ↑sort
• Hypernyms: ↑grouping
• Hyponyms: ↑triage, ↑separation
Useful english dictionary. 2012.