Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being sorted.
  • Assorted; made up of various sorts.
  • Suitable; appropriate; fitting; meet.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being sorted.
  • adjective obsolete Suitable; befitting; proper.

Etymologies

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From sort +‎ -able, after Middle French sortable.

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