# Timsort

> English word · Proper noun

## Definitions
1. A sorting algorithm derived from mergesort and insertion sort, designed to perform well on many kinds of real-world data.

## Etymology
From Tim + sort, named after Tim Peters, who implemented it in 2002 for the Python programming language.

## Source
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