Assortment

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Assortment \As*sort"ment\ (-ment), n. [Cf. F. assortiment.]
     1. Act of assorting, or distributing into sorts, kinds, or
        classes.
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     2. A collection or quantity of things distributed into kinds


        or sorts; a number of things assorted.
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     3. A collection containing a variety of sorts or kinds
        adapted to various wants, demands, or purposes; as, an
        assortment of goods.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  assortment
       n 1: a collection containing a variety of sorts of things; "a
            great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a
            variety of disorders"; "a veritable smorgasbord of
            religions" [syn: {mixture}, {mixed bag}, {miscellany}, {miscellanea},
             {variety}, {salmagundi}, {smorgasbord}, {potpourri}, {motley}]
       2: the act of distributing things into classes or categories of
          the same type [syn: {categorization}, {categorisation}, {classification},
           {compartmentalization}, {compartmentalisation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  83 Moby Thesaurus words for "assortment":
     agglomeration, all sorts, allay, alleviate, appease, array,
     assemblage, assuage, batch, broad spectrum, calm, categorization,
     category, class, classification, collectanea, collection,
     conciliate, conglomerate, conglomeration, culling, ease, farrago,
     gallimaufry, gradation, group, grouping, hash, hodgepodge,
     hotchpot, hotchpotch, jumble, lighten, lot, magpie, mash, medley,
     melange, mess, mingle-mangle, miscellanea, miscellany, mishmash,
     mitigate, mix, mixed bag, mixture, mollify, oddments,
     odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, pasticcio,
     pastiche, patchwork, placate, placement, potpourri, propitiate,
     ranking, relax, salad, salmagundi, sauce, scramble, screening,
     selection, set, sifting, slack, slacken, soothe, sorting,
     sorting out, stew, subordination, sundries, sweeten, taxonomy,
     triage, variety, what you will