quicksort

🇺🇸 /k'wɪksɔt/ 🇬🇧 /k'wɪksɔ:t/
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A fast way to arrange things in order by first picking one thing as the middle point, then putting things smaller than it on one side and bigger things on the other side, and doing the same with the smaller and bigger groups.

The computer program used quicksort to organize the numbers in just a few seconds.

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n. A fast way to arrange things in order by first picking one thing as the middle point, then putting things smaller than it on one side and bigger things on the other side, and doing the same with the smaller and bigger groups.