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Sorter

Sorter \Sort"er\, n. One who, or that which, sorts.

Wiktionary
sorter

n. 1 A person employed to sort. 2 A machine made to sort.

WordNet
sorter
  1. n. a clerk who sorts things (as letters at the post office)

  2. a machine for sorting things (such as punched cards or letters) into classes

Wikipedia
Sorter

Sorter can refer to:

  • Keirsey Temperament Sorter
  • Cash sorter machine
  • Sorter (logistics), a system that sorts products (goods, luggage, mail, etc.) to several destinations
    • Tilt tray sorter
    • Cross belt sorter
  • Sorting algorithm, in computer science
Sorter (logistics)

In logistics, a sorter (sorting system, sortation system) is a system which performs sortation of products (goods, luggage, mail, etc.) according to their destinations.

A common type of sorter is a conveyor-based system. While they may be based on other conveyor systems, usually sorters are unique types of conveyors.

Usage examples of "sorter".

Instead, Eli Strone was deeply preoccupied at a pulsed-laser bacterial sorter, a processing sieve that separated out desirable species from the unwanted ones.

He saw the broomies, two silent boys, sweep the dirty crutchings up to the sorter and fling them out on his rack.

Now, Scraggsy here has been master so long that the juice of authority has sorter soaked into his marrer bones.

Within two or three successive seconds, millions of people in widely separated areas-factory and office workers, farmers, housewives, shoppers, salesclerks, restaurant operators, printers, service station attendants, stock-brokers, hoteliers, hairdressers, movie projectionists and patrons, streetcar motormen, TV station staffs and viewers, bartenders, mail sorters, wine makers, doctors, dentists, veterinarians, pinball players .

He has been a high school wrestler, a scuba diving instructor, a quahog diver, a UPS sorter, a word-processing consultant, a private pilot, and a stay-at-home dad.

He has been a high school wrestler, a scuba diving instructor, a quahog diver, a UPS sorter, a private pilot, a freelance instructional and web designer, and a stay-at-home dad.

He has been a high school wrestler, a scuba diving instructor, a quahog diver, a UPS sorter, a private pilot, a freelance instructional designer, and a stay-at-home dad.

Ahead of him somewhere, a thousand rasping ultra-diamond teeth, patterned on the radulae of a snail, had been chewing through the metal core of the rock, sucking the debris into the sorter and then into the storage bay for refining on the main ship.

Dis make me feel sorter jubous like, but I lay down en wrop up my head.

Within two or three successive seconds, millions of people in widely separated areas-factory and office workers, farmers, housewives, shoppers, salesclerks, restaurant operators, printers, service station attendants, stock-brokers, hoteliers, hairdressers, movie projectionists and patrons, streetcar motormen, TV station staffs and viewers, bartenders, mail sorters, wine makers, doctors, dentists, veterinarians, pinball players .

After I heard about it, I sorter oozed around the barrooms pickin’ up gossip and I found out that somebody wants to buy in Tara cheap at the sheriffs sale, if you can’t pay the extra taxes.

So, accorden' to rules, you writes a letter allowin' buzziness and that sorter thing detains you.

She says we'd ought to fit ourselves fur our higher spear, an' I dessay we'd ought,-- but you see it goes sorter hard with us.

Jordan decorated the borders of the menus with romanticized scenes of the diggings: the stagings soaring above the gaping pit, heroic figures working on the walls of yellow earth, a sorter at his table, and at the head of the sheet a man's cupped hands overflowing with uncut diamonds, and he coloured the illustrations with water paints.

Neither the mail carrier nor the sorters remember letters from anyone named Bjornsen.