(archaeology) A table on which finds are sorted by date, origin etc.

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

plural of sorting office

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

Process by which waste is separated into different elements

(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.

Alternative form of resort (Etymology 2, to sort again)

(computing) A sorting algorithm that counts how many times each integer key appears in an array and then reorders the array based on those counts.

To look through (a collection of documents, facts, etc.) to make sense of them or put them in order.

(graph theory, computer science) An ordering of the vertices of a directed graph such that if an edge goes from vertex u to vertex v then u precedes v in the ordering.