Table of Contents POS
HYPHEN
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
ROGET THESAURUS

RELATED WORD : law of independent assortment

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun assortment has 2 senses

• assortment(n = noun.group) miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety - a collection containing a variety of sorts of things; "a great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety of disorders"; "a veritable smorgasbord of religions"
is a kind of accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection
has particulars: grab bag, witch's brew, witches' brew, witches' broth, range, selection, farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag, alphabet soup, sampler

• assortment(n = noun.act) categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization - the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type; Array
is a kind of grouping
has particulars: indexing, reclassification, relegation, stratification, taxonomy, typology
Derived form verb assort₂

CIDE DICTIONARY

OXFORD DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

assortment

agglomeration, all sorts, allay, alleviate, appease, array, assemblage, assuage, batch, broad spectrum, calm, categorization, category, class, classification, collectanea, collection, conciliate, conglomerate, conglomeration, culling, ease, farrago, gallimaufry, gradation, group, grouping, hash, hodgepodge, hotchpot, hotchpotch, jumble, lighten, lot, magpie, mash, medley, melange, mess, mingle-mangle, miscellanea, miscellany, mishmash, mitigate, mix, mixed bag, mixture, mollify, oddments, odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, placate, placement, potpourri, propitiate, ranking, relax, salad, salmagundi, sauce, scramble, screening, selection, set, sifting, slack, slacken, soothe, sorting, sorting out, stew, subordination, sundries, sweeten, taxonomy, triage, variety, what you will

ROGET THESAURUS

assortment

Arrangement

N arrangement, plan, preparation, disposal, disposition, collocation, allocation, distribution, sorting, assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization, grouping, tabulation, analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion, digest, synopsis, syntagma, table, atlas, file, database, register, organism, architecture, sieve, riddle, screen, sorter, arranged, embattled, in battle array, cut and dried, methodical, orderly, regular, systematic, In vast cumbrous array.

Assemblage

N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.

Class

N class, division, category, categorema, head, order, section, department, subdepartment, province, domain, kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset, assortment, feather, kidney, suit, range, gender, sex, kin, manner, description, denomination, designation, rubric, character, stamp predicament, indication, particularization, selection, specification, similarity.

For further exploring for "assortment" in Webster Dictionary Online