reassortmentn.
/ˌriːəˈsɔːtm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌriəˈsɔrtm(ə)nt/ 1. The action of sorting something again or differently; redistribution, rearrangement, reclassification. Also: an instance or product of this.
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the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > putting in order > giving orderly structure to something > reorganization
reorganization1751
reassortment1767
rearrangement1778
restructure1811
remaniement1825
reorg1859
reformulation1884
rejigging1884
realignment1896
restructuring1932
restructuration1939
shake-out1939
rejig1965
1767 Considerations Navigable Communication Forth & Clyde 6 Most of all the other goods..must take the same course, supposing them even the property of the inhabitants of Glasgow, unless so far as they are of the manufacture of that city, or for consumption or re-assortment in it.
1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 294 He took care to provide..reassortments of stock, which he safely deposited in his warehouse.
1877 J. Geikie Great Ice Age (ed. 2) xxviii. 389 This..does not mean that the deposition of the morainic débris and its reassortment by the sea took place at one and the same time.
1907 L. H. Bailey Cycl. Amer. Agric. I. x. 337/2 Deposits of fine, loose, silicious sand..are likewise a product of re-assortment of morainal material by water.
1959 B. Wootton Social Sci. & Social Pathol. xi. 330 He may break down under the stress of the eleven-plus reassortment.
2006 D. A. Karp Is it me or my Meds? v. 160 A lot of friends..[are] not willing to get involved in things they can't cope with. Yeah, you get a reassortment of friends.
2.
a. Genetics. The (typically random) distribution of parental chromosomes or genes to the gametes during meiosis.
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1914 Science 27 Feb. 318/1 The essence of the sexual process..consists not of a real fusion, but merely of a temporary association, followed by a reassortment at sporogenesis, of..the chromosomes.
1948 H. P. Riley Introd. Genetics & Cytogenetics xxix. 480 The segregation of alleles and the reassortment of genic combinations that make up so much of the body of genetics occur only as a product of sexual reproduction.
2000 Sciences May–June 12/2 One of the inevitable pressures on any species is genetic drift, the random reassortment of genes from one generation to the next.
b. Virology. The formation of a viral genome from segments of the genomes of two other viruses (typically following mixed infection).
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1975 Virology 66 522/2 The segmented nature of the influenza A genome..permits a high frequency of reassortment of the genes when cells are dually infected with two different influenza A viruses.
1993 Independent on Sunday 31 Oct. (Review Suppl.) 73/5 One way or another, the possibility exists that reassortment occurs in birds and pigs.
2005 Washington Post 23 Aug. a6/2 In 1968..the Hong Kong strain got a new ‘H’ [= hemagglutinin] from birds through reassortment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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