Sorting Glossary

Browse 4 sorting terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

4 Sorting Terms

Bucket Sort
A sorting algorithm that distributes values into a set of buckets based on their range or key and then sorts or concatenates those buckets to produce the final...
Merge Sort
A stable, comparison-based sorting algorithm that recursively divides the input in half, sorts each half, and merges the sorted halves back together. It...
Quick Sort
A divide-and-conquer sorting algorithm that selects a pivot element, partitions the array into elements less than and greater than the pivot, then recursively...
Radix Sort
A non-comparison sorting algorithm that distributes elements into buckets based on individual digits or characters, processing from least-significant to...

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