Meaning of sortkey | Babel Free

Definitions

A key (field or value) by which data items are sorted.

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Examples

“Output conversion routines may be applied to sortkey items before they are sorted.”

“Sortkeys are made by picking out delimiting characters and special signs.”

“In data-processing terminology, descriptors by which a file is ordered are called sortkeys. (Likewise, descriptors used in searching are called search keys.) A library catalog may be arranged by sortkey 1: author, and sortkey 2: title.”

CEFR level