Mergesort
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mergesort is a noun meaning (transitive, computing) To sort with such an algorithm.
Meaning
(transitive, computing) To sort with such an algorithm.
More Meanings
- (computing) A divide and conquer sorting algorithm that operates by dividing the items to be sorted into many small lists and gradually merging them together.
Word Forms
- mergesorts
- merge-sort
- mergesorting
- mergesorted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include subsort, bucketsort, smoothsort, cubesort, pivot, chunking.
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