sortingbench
nounUK /ˈsɔːtɪŋ bɛntʃ/
US /ˈsɔːrtɪŋ bɛntʃ/
A table where you put things into groups by kind.
The children used the sortingbench to separate the buttons by color.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. A bench in a workshop used for arranging tools and parts.
He laid the screws out on the sortingbench before building the shelf.
3. A place in a recycling center where materials are separated by hand.
Workers at the sortingbench pulled plastic bottles from the paper.
4. A computer program or setup for arranging data into groups.
The engineer ran the files through a sortingbench to group them by size.