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  2. Hopper (particulate collection container) - Wikipedia

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    A hopper is a large, inverted pyramidal or conical container used in industrial processes to hold particulate matter or flowable material of any sort (e.g. dust, gravel, nuts, or seeds) and dispense these from the bottom when needed. In some specialized applications even small metal or plastic assembly components can be loaded and dispensed by ...

  3. Hopper - Wikipedia

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    Hopper, a prototype test vehicle for the SpaceX Starship; Hopper balloon, a kind of ultralight hot air balloon; Hopper barge, a kind of barge; Hopper car, a type of railway freight car; Gravity wagon, or slant wagon, a type of wagon that is essentially a hopper; used in agriculture; Space hopper, a toy: a ball with handles for bouncing on

  4. External sorting - Wikipedia

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    external sorting algorithm. External sorting is a class of sorting algorithms that can handle massive amounts of data.External sorting is required when the data being sorted do not fit into the main memory of a computing device (usually RAM) and instead they must reside in the slower external memory, usually a disk drive.

  5. Slowsort - Wikipedia

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    Slowsort is a sorting algorithm.It is of humorous nature and not useful. It is a reluctant algorithm based on the principle of multiply and surrender (a parody formed by taking the opposites of divide and conquer).

  6. Quicksort - Wikipedia

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    Quicksort is a comparison sort, meaning that it can sort items of any type for which a "less-than" relation (formally, a total order) is defined. It is a comparison-based sort since elements a and b are only swapped in case their relative order has been obtained in the transitive closure of prior comparison-outcomes.

  7. Why can’t I sort email by the header? - AOL Help

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    Unfortunately, the ability to sort by "From," "Subject," or "Date" is no longer supported if you use the New/Old style of inbox. If you want to sort your messages this way, switch to the Unified Inbox style.

  8. Sorter (logistics) - Wikipedia

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    A common type of sorter is a conveyor-based system. While they may be based on other conveyor systems, usually sorters are unique types of conveyors. [1] Sortation is the process of identifying items on a conveyor system, and diverting them to specific destinations. Sorters are applied to different applications depending upon the product and ...

  9. Waste sorting - Wikipedia

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    Waste sorting can occur manually at the household and collected through curbside collection schemes, or automatically separated in materials recovery facilities or mechanical biological treatment systems. Hand sorting was the first method used in the history of waste sorting. [2] Waste can also be sorted in a civic amenity site.