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sort·ing

[sawr-ting] Pronunciation Key

–noun Geology.

the process by which sedimentary particles become separated according to some particular characteristic, as size or shape.

[Origin: sort + -ing¹

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sort (sôrt) Pronunciation Key
n.

A group of persons or things of the same general character; a kind.
Character or nature: books of all sorts.
One that exemplifies the characteristics of or serves a similar function to another: "A large dinner-party ... made a sort of general introduction for her to the society of the neighbourhood" (George Eliot).
A person; an individual: The clerk is a decent sort.
A way of acting or behaving.
sorts Printing One of the characters in a font of type.
An act or instance of sorting: did a sort on the columns of data.

tr.v. sort·ed, sort·ing, sorts

To arrange according to class, kind, or size; classify. See Synonyms at arrange.
To separate from others: sort out the wheat from the chaff.
To clarify by going over mentally: She tried to sort out her problems.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sors, sort-, lot; see ser-² in Indo-European roots.]

sort'a·ble adj., sort'er n.

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sorting
noun
1.	an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion; "the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting" [syn: sort]
2.	the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories [syn: classification]
3.	grouping by class or kind or size

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sorting (sôr'tĭng) Pronunciation Key

The process by which sediment particles that have a certain characteristic, such as a given shape or grain size, are separated from other associated particles by an active agent of transportation, such as wind, a stream, or a glacier.
A measure of the degree to which this process has occurred within a body of sediment. Wind-blown sediments are usually well-sorted because only a small range of grain sizes can be lifted by a particular wind velocity. Glacially derived sediments are usually poorly sorted because of the great range of particle sizes that are picked up by a moving glacier.

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