Contextualizebeta

Shellsort

noun

Etymology

From Shell + sort, after Douglas Shell, who published the first version in 1959.

  1. derived from sortem
  2. derived from sorte
  3. inherited from sort
  4. compounded as shellsort — “Shell + sort”

Definitions

  1. A sorting algorithm that starts by sorting pairs of elements that are far apart from each…

    A sorting algorithm that starts by sorting pairs of elements that are far apart from each other, then progressively reduces the gap between elements to be compared.

  2. Alternative form of Shellsort.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Shellsort. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA