Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Sorting, especially when mechanized or automated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of. sorting.
- Of or pertaining to sorting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The use of any process of sorting.
- noun countable A process or instance of
sorting . - noun The
automated sorting of things, especially the use ofbarcodes to sort androute items.
Etymologies
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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I could have walked to the "sortation" center and picked it up twice over in that time.
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I could have walked to the "sortation" center and picked it up twice over in that time.
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I could have walked to the "sortation" center and picked it up twice over in that time.
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I could have walked to the "sortation" center and picked it up twice over in that time.
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In regards to sperm sortation, how does anybody prevent the same problems that are currently happening with adoption?
Human Sex Ratio Doesn't Run in Families, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2010
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm a supervisor in the baggage sortation area.
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The same hub-and-spoke concept used for passengers in the daytime delivers freight at night, except with dedicated aircraft feeding dedicated freight sortation centers in different cities from the passenger hubs.
Lean Thinking James P. Womack 2003
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right, yes, 95 years ago, when UPS was founded, everything was handled manually and the string was fine, but now with all of the automatic sortation equipment that we have, the string could get caught.
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Accu-Sort offers hardware and software for bar code systems, print-and-apply applications, sortation and dimensioning that reduce cost in multiple ways.
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Accu-Sort offers hardware and software for bar code systems, print-and-apply applications, sortation and dimensioning that reduce cost in multiple ways.
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