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Definition of Sortings
1. sorting [n] - See also: sorting
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sortings
Literary usage of Sortings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cost Control and Accounting for Textile Mills by Eugene Szepesi (1922)
"At present we will take up sorting, scouring and dyeing, and the task is to supply
the manager with the following information: sortings required to cover ..."
2. To the Cape for Diamonds.: A Story of Digging Experiences in South Africa by Frederick Boyle (1873)
"... road—The pebbles—Job's Canteen—The Halfway House Canteen—The flies—Busy
road—First glimpse of New Rush—The roads, the tents, the sortings, the claims, ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1913)
"The movement series was always learned in fewer than thirty sortings. A second
series was learned with the repetitions at intervals of one minute. ..."
4. The Psychology of Learning: An Advance Text in Educational Psychology by William Henry Pyle (1921)
"Make five sortings at a sitting, with half-hour rests between sittings. The class
can be divided into four groups of equal ability as determined by previous ..."
5. South Africa: Its History, Heroes and Wars by William Douglas Mackenzie, Alfred Stead (1899)
"... after much percolation, delivers each uniform lot at a separate receptacle.
After the pulsator there remain a number of "dry-sortings," and re- sortings ..."
6. Principles of Woollen Spinning by Howard Priestman (1908)
"In one particular lot, the seams are taken out, all bits of black that have
escaped in previous sortings are now rejected, the rest goes to four piles: ..."
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