Shellsort

The English word “Shellsort” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

A sorting algorithm that starts by sorting pairs of elements that are far apart from each other, then progressively reduces the gap between elements to be compared.

From Shell + sort, after Douglas Shell, who published the first version in 1959.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “Shellsort” there

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.