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unsorting

unsorting is the present participle and gerund of unsort.

Meaning of unsort

Verb

unsort (third-person singular simple present unsorts, present participle unsorting, simple past and past participle unsorted)

  1. (nonstandard, transitive) To sort out; to resolve.
    • In his letter to Virginia's governor excerpted below, Rolfe tries to unsort the mixture of motives that led to his decision to marry Pocahantas.2003, Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll, A Documentary History of Religion in America to 1877, page 54
  2. To shuffle a data structure so that it is no longer sorted.
    • And what if we want to unsort an array? The shuffle ( ) function uses PHP's random number generator to re-arrange the elements of an array randomly.1999, Jesus Castagnetto, Professional PHP Programming, page 162

Questions about unsorting

What is unsorting the present participle and gerund of?
Unsorting is the present participle and gerund of unsort.

Words near unsorting in the dictionary

  1. unsorry
  2. unsort
  3. unsortable
  4. unsorted
  5. unsortedness
  6. unsorting
  7. unsorts
  8. unsotted
  9. unsought
  10. unsoul
  11. unsouled

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