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sorters

sorters is the plural of sorter.

Meaning of sorter

Noun

sorter (plural sorters)

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

Phrases with sorters

Questions about sorters

What is sorters the plural of?
Sorters is the plural of sorter.

Words near sorters in the dictionary

  1. sorted out
  2. sorted the wheat from the chaff
  3. sorted through
  4. sortedness
  5. sorter
  6. sorters
  7. sortes
  8. sorteth
  9. sortie
  10. sortie out
  11. sortied

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