unsortierten

Unsorktierten is the inflected form of the German adjective unsortiert, meaning not ordered or not arranged according to a sorting criterion. It is used to describe data, lists, or items that have not been sorted. The base adjective unsortiert comes from un- plus sortieren (to sort). In everyday and technical language, unsortiert describes states or collections where elements lack a defined order or criterion for arrangement.

In computing and data processing, unsortierte Daten or unsortierte Listen refer to data structures in which elements are stored without a specified sequence. This contrasts with sortierte Daten, which are arranged according to a particular order, such as ascending or descending values. The lack of sorting can influence algorithm choice: unsortierte data often require linear search or hashing for efficient access, while sorted data enable binary search and faster range queries. Maintaining data in an unsortierter form can simplify insertions and updates, but may slow down lookups or require later re-sorting when ordered access becomes necessary.

The form unsortierten appears when the adjective modifies a plural noun in different cases, for example unsortierte Daten or unsortierten Dateien, depending on the syntactic context. In practical usage, you may encounter phrases like eine unsortierte Liste von Namen or unsortierte Dateien im Ordner.

Overall, unsortierten denotes the state of lacking sorting order and is common in German linguistics and computing contexts. See also sortieren, sortierung, unsortiert.