1. (

• assortment ,
• mixture ,
• mixed_bag ,
• miscellany ,
• miscellanea ,
• variety ,
• salmagundi ,
• smorgasbord ,
• potpourri ,
• motley

) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things; "a great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety of disorders"; "a veritable smorgasbord of religions" ;

2. (

• categorization ,
• categorisation ,
• classification ,
• compartmentalization ,
• compartmentalisation ,
• assortment

) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type ;