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

[ Syn: mixture , mixed bag , miscellany , miscellanea , variety , salmagundi , smorgasbord , potpourri , motley ]

the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type

[ Syn: categorization , categorisation , classification , compartmentalization , compartmentalisation ]