reordered

Reordered is the past participle of reorder. As an adjective, it describes something that has been arranged again or requested again. The term can apply to sequences, priorities, or inventories that have been put into a new order or restocked.

Etymology: Reordered derives from the prefix re- meaning again and the verb order. The root order traces back to Old French ordre and Latin ordo; the prefix re- appears in many languages to indicate repetition or reversal.

Usage: In everyday language, reordered describes reorganizing items or events: for example, “They reordered the list by date” or “The chapters were reordered in the revision.” In logistics and inventory management, a reordered stock refers to items ordered again after depletion. In computing and data processing, reordering refers to rearranging elements; a reordered sequence is a permutation produced by a sorting or shuffling operation.

See also: reorder, reordering, permutation, sorting algorithm.

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