"sortkey" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1973, Generalized Data Base Management Systems, page 257:",
          "text": "Output conversion routines may be applied to sortkey items before they are sorted.",
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          "ref": "1975, Network, Library and Information Science Division of the World Information Systems Exchange, page 15:",
          "text": "Sortkeys are made by picking out delimiting characters and special signs.",
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          "ref": "1985, Dagobert Soergel, Organizing Information: Principles of Data Base and Retrieval Systems (Library and Information Science Series), Academic Press, →ISBN, page 200:",
          "text": "In data-processing terminology, descriptors by which a file is ordered are called sortkeys. (Likewise, descriptors used in searching are called search keys.) A library catalog may be arranged by sortkey 1: author, and sortkey 2: title.",
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        "A key (field or value) by which data items are sorted."
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        "(computing) A key (field or value) by which data items are sorted."
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          "word": "lajitteluavain"
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          "word": "klucz sortowania"
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