A gambling technique by which a player determines whether a face-down playing card is likely to be low or high, by observing and exploiting subtle unintentional differences on the backs of some types of card, after arranging for the croupier to cooperate by unwittingly sorting the cards into low and high.

present participle of merge-sort

plural of waste sorting

present participle of re-sort

Process by which waste is separated into different elements

plural of sorting office

A building in which mail is collected together, then sorted prior to delivery.

(biochemistry) The process that moves proteins to appropriate locations in a cell

(mathematics) The mathematical problem of sorting a disordered stack of pancakes in order of size when a spatula can be inserted at any point in the stack and used to flip all pancakes above it.

present participle of sort oneself out