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assortment

[uh-sawrt-muh nt]
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noun
  1. the act of assorting; distribution; classification.
  2. a collection of various kinds of things; a mixed collection.
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Origin of assortment

First recorded in 1605–15; assort + -ment
Related formsre·as·sort·ment, noun
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Historical Examples

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

noun
  1. a collection or group of various things or sorts
  2. the act of assorting
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Word Origin and History for reassortment

assortment

n.

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.

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reassortment in Medicine

assortment

(ə-sôrt′mənt)
n.
  1. 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.
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