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Noun: assortment  u'sort-munt
  1. 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
     
  2. 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