Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

timsort

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tim-sort
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A sorting algorithm derived from mergesort and insertion sort, designed to perform well on many kinds of real-world data.

Etymology

From Tim + sort, named after Tim Peters, who implemented it in 2002 for the Python programming language.

Questions

What does timsort mean?: A sorting algorithm derived from mergesort and insertion sort, designed to perform well on many kinds of real-world data.
Where does timsort come from?: From Tim + sort, named after Tim Peters, who implemented it in 2002 for the Python programming language.

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