Noun: assortment u'sort-munt
- A collection containing many different types of things
"a great assortment of cars was on display";
- mixture, mixed bag [informal], miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri, motley, smörgåsbord
- The act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
"The librarian's assortment of books made them easier to find";
- categorization, categorisation [Brit], classification, compartmentalization, compartmentalisation [Brit]
Derived forms: assortments
Type of: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection, grouping
Encyclopedia: Assortment