sorter

English

Etymology

From sort +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)

Noun

sorter (plural sorters)

1. A person employed to sort.
   • 1948 May and June, O. S. Nock, “Scottish Night Mails of the L.M.S.R.—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 157:

     But soon one notices, first in ones and twos, and then in larger groups, men who are very much alive at this hour in the morning, the sorters for the Caledonian, and Edinburgh sections of the "Down Special"; mail is piled high on the platforms, and the postal men glance occasionally towards the platform intermediate signals. By this time the calling-on arm is pulled off, and a few minutes later in comes the train, unannounced by the loud-speakers, to the mystification of many travellers.

2. A machine or algorithm that performs sorting.

Derived terms

• cross-belt sorter
• universal sorter
• woolsorter

Anagrams

• Storer, Torres, re-sort, resort, retros, roster, storer

Danish

Noun

sorter c

1. definite singular of sort

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

sorter m

1. indefinite plural of sort

Verb

sorter

1. imperative of sortere

Swedish

Noun

sorter

1. indefinite plural of sort

Anagrams

• orters, treors