alphabetical sorting
Dictionary-style ordering method
Alphabetical sorting is the arrangement of items according to the sequence of letters in the alphabet.
Names in a phone book, words in a dictionary, and files in a folder are typically alphabetized.
The method compares first letters, then second letters when firsts match, and so on: apple comes before banana, and cat before cattle.
- A to ZFull alphabetical span
- ASCII codeText-to-number encoding standard
- binary searchLogarithmic lookup in sorted data
- collationSystematic arrangement by rules
- case sensitiveUppercase and lowercase differ
filing cabinet · Phonetics · dictionary · index · phone book
order vs. disorder
alphabetical sortingno particular order
unsorted · jumbled · scrambled · disordered · unorganized
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