Sorting vs Indexing - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between sorting and indexing

is that sorting is while indexing is .

As nouns the difference between sorting and indexing

is that sorting is (senseid)ordering while indexing is a system used to assign indexes.

sorting

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    (wikipedia sorting) (en noun)
  • (senseid)Ordering.
  • (senseid)Categorizing.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}

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    indexing

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    Verb

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  • Noun

  • A system used to assign indexes.
  • In zero-based indexing , array variables in a computer program are numbered upwards from zero.