Usually means: Efficient, recursive, divide-and-conquer algorithm.
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  1. quicksort: Wordnik
  2. quicksort: Wiktionary
  3. Quicksort: Dictionary.com
  4. Quicksort: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Quicksort: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Quicksort, quicksort: Game Dictionary
  3. quicksort: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  4. quicksort: Encyclopedia

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  1. Quicksort: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. quicksort: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (quicksort)

noun:  (computing) A sorting algorithm that operates by recursively partitioning the items to be sorted into two sets.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To sort with such an algorithm.

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