assortment
- noun
- /əˈsɔrtmənt/
- With a good assortment, you'll find something that works wherever you are.
- a wide assortment
Examples
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The next callers would find the trading post already there with an assortment of goods available.
Fiction book (2002) -
In Russia, farm technology had been limited to windmills, steel plows, wooden harrows, and an assortment of wagons.
Academic text (1992) -
And so you do that for breakfast, lunch and dinner, find, you know, a core assortment of ingredients.
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You have an assortment of odd facts, and you try to arrange them in a pattern.
Fiction book (1993) -
Despite improvements since 1982, environmental policy remains fragmented among an assortment of government agencies.
Academic text (1991) -
The semester was organized into an assortment of lectures, lab exercises, and site visits over a 15-week period.
Academic text (1996) -
Like other comparable products, Firefox and Thunderbird ship with a wide assortment of pre-installed CA certificates.
Blog text (25) -
The winning delicacy is a combo that basically consists of hydrolyzed spray-dried protein and an assortment of inert ingredients.
Academic text (2000) -
The store features a wide assortment of fruits and vegetables, displayed in colorful bins.
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During the event, guests can enjoy an assortment of appetizers ranging from cheese platters to shrimp cocktails.
Synonyms
The way things are placed or organized in a place
A way of arranging things into groups by shared features
The process of putting things into groups by shared features
Putting things, people, or ideas into groups because they are similar
Dividing something into parts or groups
Dividing something into separate parts to keep things organized
An order of parts or ideas that makes them easy to understand
Putting people or things into small, simple groups that limit them
Putting items into groups that have the same features
An act of putting things in a new order to change where they are
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
Each pair of chromosomes separates independently when sex cells form, creating random trait combinations
How Organized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Assortment comes from the verb assort, which is built on sort, a word meaning 'to arrange' or 'kind'. So an assortment can mean the action or result of putting items into groups by type.