assortment

1. A collection containing a variety of sorts of things (synset 108415730)
   "a great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety of disorders"; "a veritable smorgasbord of religions"
   is a type of: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection - several things grouped together or considered as a whole
   subtypes:

   • grab bag - an assortment of miscellaneous items
   • witch's brew, witches' brew, witches' broth - a fearsome mixture
   • range - a variety of different things or activities
   • selection - an assortment of things from which a choice can be made
   • farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag - a motley assortment of things
   • alphabet soup - a confusing assortment
   • sampler - an assortment of various samples
   same as: miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety
2. The act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type (synset 101014654)
   is a type of: grouping - the activity of putting things together in groups
   subtypes:

   • indexing - the act of classifying and providing an index in order to make items easier to retrieve
   • reclassification - classifying something again (usually in a new category)
   • relegation - the act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category
   • stratification - the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata
   • taxonomy - practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships
   • typology - classification according to general type
   same as: categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization

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