SORTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sorting mean? 

• SORTING (noun)
  The noun SORTING has 3 senses:

1. an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion

2. the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories

3. grouping by class or kind or size

  Familiarity information: SORTING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SORTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

sort; sorting

Context example:

the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting

Hypernyms ("sorting" is a kind of...):

operation ((computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction))

Derivation:

sort (arrange or order by classes or categories)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

categorisation; categorization; classification; sorting

Hypernyms ("sorting" is a kind of...):

basic cognitive process (cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sorting"):

coordination (being of coordinate importance, rank, or degree)

appraisal; assessment (the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth)

ascription; attribution (assigning to a cause or source)

ascription; attribution (assigning some quality or character to a person or thing)

cross-classification; cross-division (classification according to more than one attribute at the same time)

subsumption (incorporating something under a more general category)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Grouping by class or kind or size

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("sorting" is a kind of...):

grouping (the activity of putting things together in groups)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sorting"):

triage (sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food)

separation (sorting one thing from others)

Derivation:

sort (arrange or order by classes or categories)

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes cation-independent mannose-6-phosphate receptor protein, plays a role in protein sorting and receptor signal transduction.

(IGF2R wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The process of moving proteins from one cellular compartment to another by various sorting and transport mechanisms such as gated transport, protein translocation, and vesicular transport.

(Intracellular Protein Transport, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in protein sorting.

(NACA Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

The sorting of receptors in the early endosome for degradation requires the tyrosine kinase activity of activated growth factor receptor and involves ubiquitination of the receptor.

(EGF Receptor Downregulation by CBL Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This allele, which encodes charged multivesicular body protein 2a, plays a role in the regulation of protein sorting and assembly in the formation of multivesicular bodies.

(CHMP2A wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The resource operates, maintains, and upgrades instrumentation for flow cytometric analysis and cell sorting, advises in the design of experiments and contributes consultation in analysis of data.

(Flow Cytometry Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

Functions in posttranslational processing and sorting of proteins, receiving them from the rough endoplasmic reticulum and directing them to secretory vesicles, lysosomes, or the cell membrane.

(Golgi Apparatus, NCI Thesaurus)

Finished the sorting, Martin lent a hand in wringing the clothes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

To bud from infected cells, HIV-1 employs several host proteins such as endosomal sorting protein Tsg101, which functions in the Vps pathway.

(HIV Budding, NCI Thesaurus)

A technique for counting, examining or sorting microscopic particles suspended in a stream of fluid based on tagging the population of interest with antibody-based reagents.

(Immunological Flow Cytometry, NCI Thesaurus)