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sortkey

noun

Etymology

From sort + key.

  1. derived from *ǵogʰ-✻
  2. derived from *kēgaz✻
  3. inherited from *kaiju✻
  4. inherited from cǣġ
  5. inherited from keye
  6. compounded as sortkey — “sort + key”

Definitions

  1. A key (field or value) by which data items are sorted.

    • Output conversion routines may be applied to sortkey items before they are sorted.
    • Sortkeys are made by picking out delimiting characters and special signs.
    • In data-processing terminology, descriptors by which a file is ordered are called sortkeys. (Likewise, descriptors used in searching are called search keys.) A library catalog may be arranged by sortkey 1: author, and sortkey 2: title.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sortkey. 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