Assorting

  • 31assortment — noun Date: 1611 1. a. the act of assorting b. the state of being assorted 2. a collection of assorted things or persons …

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  • 32Assortative mating — (also called assortative pairing), and the related concept Disassortative mating, is the phenomenon where a sexually reproducing organism chooses to mate with individuals that are similar[1][2] (positive assortative mating) or dissimilar… …

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  • 33Gemmological Institute of India — is a gemmology training school in Mumbai.DescriptionThe Gemmological Institute of India (GII) is a non profit school in Mumbai that conducts courses on gemmology. It was founded in April 1971 by the Gem and Jewellery Exporters Association, Bombay …

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  • 34assortment — /euh sawrt meuhnt/, n. 1. the act of assorting; distribution; classification. 2. a collection of various kinds of things; a mixed collection. [1605 15; ASSORT + MENT] * * * …

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  • 35assortative — adjective Characterized by assorting. Assortative interactions can generate highly nonrandom variation among groups. Ant: disassortative …

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  • 36Triage — The process of sorting people based on their need for immediate medical treatment as compared to their chance of benefiting from such care. Triage is done in emergency rooms, disasters and wars when limited medical resources must be allocated to… …

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  • 37map — A representation of a region or structure; E.G., of a stretch of DNA. choroplethic m. a method of mapping to display quantitative information such as death rates in defined jurisdictions (states, counties, etc.) by color coding or shading. [G.… …

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  • 38assort — (v.) late 15c., to distribute into groups, from M.Fr. assortir (15c.), from O.Fr. assorter to assort, match, from a to (see AD (Cf. ad )) + sorte kind (see SORT (Cf. sort)). Related: ASSORTED (Cf. Assorted); …

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  • 39assortment — 1610s, action of assorting, from ASSORT (Cf. assort) + MENT (Cf. ment). Sense of group of things of the same sort is attested from 1759; that of group of things whether the same sort or not from 1791 …

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  • 40triage — 1727, action of assorting according to quality, from Fr. triage a picking out, sorting, from O.Fr. trier to pick, cull (see TRY (Cf. try)). There seems to be some influence from or convergence with L. tria three (e.g. triage for coffee beans of… …

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