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Segregation vs Sorting - What's the difference?

segregation | sorting |

As nouns the difference between segregation and sorting

is that segregation is the setting apart or separation of things or people, as a natural process, a manner of organizing people that may be voluntary or enforced by law while sorting is (ordering)Ordering.

As a verb sorting is

present participle of lang=en.

segregation

English

(wikipedia segregation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The setting apart or separation of things or people, as a natural process, a manner of organizing people that may be voluntary or enforced by law.
  • (rfc-sense) (biology) The Mendelian Law of Segregation related to genetic transmission or geographical segregation of various species.
  • (mineralogy) Separation]] from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the [[crystallize, crystallizing process.
  • (politics, public policy) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
  • (sociology) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).

    • Synonyms

    *apartheid

    Related terms

    * segregate * segregative * segregator

    Derived terms

    * segregationist

    Antonyms

    * desegregation

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    sorting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (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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