assortment

[uh-sawrt-muh nt]

noun

the act of assorting; distribution; classification.

a collection of various kinds of things; a mixed collection.

Origin of assortment

First recorded in 1605–15; assort + -ment

Related formsre·as·sort·ment, noun

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Historical Examples of reassortment

Only when this reassortment of forms took place was the modern symbolic value of the foot: feet alternation clearly established.
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Edward Sapir

British Dictionary definitions for reassortment

reassortment

noun

the formation of a hybrid virus containing parts from the genomes of two distinct viruses in a mixed infection

assortment

noun

a collection or group of various things or sorts

the act of assorting

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Word Origin and History for reassortment

assortment

1610s, "action of assorting," from assort + -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.

reassortment in Medicine

assortment

[ə-sôrt′mənt]

n.

The relationship between non-allelic genetic traits that are transmitted from parent to child independently and according to the degree of linkage between the respective loci.