Sort

Sort may refer to:

  • Sorting, any process of arranging items in sequence or in sets
    • Sorting algorithm, any algorithm for arranging elements in lists
    • Sort (Unix), a Unix utility which sorts the lines of a file
    • Sort (C++), a function in the C++ Standard Template Library
  • Sort (typesetting), a piece of metal type
  • Sort, Lleida, a town in Catalonia
  • Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, a treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation
  • Special Operations Response Team, a group trained to respond to disturbances at a correctional facility
  • In mathematical logic, a domain in a many-sorted structure
  • Symantec Operations Readiness Tools, a web-based suite of services from Symantec Corporation

Famous quotes containing the word sort:

    “It ain’t home t’ ye, though it be the palace of a king,
    Until somehow yer soul is sort o’ wrapped round everything.”
    —Edgar Albert Guest (1881–1959)

    “Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “Your Englishman is rather reserved, and your Yankee, he does not fancy that sort of thing in anybody but himself.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)