unsort

present singular third person unsorts · participle present unsorting · participle past unsorted · past unsorted

1. nonstandardtransitiveTo sort out; to resolve.

   I try to unsort this big tangle of things that all of a sudden I've tripped over.

   2008, Susan McGeown, Call Me Elle, page 48

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   In his letter to Virginia's governor excerpted below, Rolfe tries to unsort the mixture of motives that led to his decision to marry Pocahantas.

   2003, Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll, A Documentary History of Religion in America to 1877, page 54

2. computingTo shuffle a data structure so that it is no longer sorted.

   And what if we want to unsort an array? The shuffle ( ) function uses PHP's random number generator to re-arrange the elements of an array randomly.

   1999, Jesus Castagnetto, Professional PHP Programming, page 162