The phrase "apparent sorting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation where sorting seems to be taking place, but the underlying order may not be clear or definitive.
Example: "The data displayed an apparent sorting, but further analysis revealed inconsistencies in the organization."
Alternatives: "seeming arrangement" or "visible categorization".
It fits three aisles of goods stocked according to no apparent sorting system: guava jelly, coconut milk, Wonder Bread, Goya beans, mango juice, Juicy Juice, cactus plants, blackened bananas, pork rinds.
The advantages of FACS-based selection are immediately apparent: sorting of the brightest 10% of cells yields five-fold more FcERα than the unsorted population, and nearly double that of the brightest 30%.
Secondary embryos were harvested at the end of the same culture period in which they first became apparent and sorted into transformation events based on their spacing.
Within the T1 copper proteins, groups of proteins are apparent when sorted on the basis of the midpoint reduction potential (Em).
Nuclear genes can have greater resolving power for deep-level phylogenetic inference [ 39] and, when combined with whole mitogenomes, they have also been able to improve resolution in cases of apparent incomplete lineage sorting due to rapid radiations [ 40].
One of the joys of reading the Jeeves and Wooster stories, is that whatever terrible mess Bertie Wooster might have landed in, you know that his butler, Jeeves, will, without any apparent effort, quietly sort the whole thing out before the end of the story.
McCain seeks reinforcement at every turn, which is why she has developed an apparent addiction of sorts to Twitter, with its instant feedback, its false but warming sense of community, and, of course, the easy launching pad it provides for fame.
SARAH GREEN: So I want to just get your take on the sort of apparent paradox we have here.
He suggests that the parishioners of St Mary the Virgin, Finedon, have no apparent issues with his "sort-of spousal clergy offering".
In any case, he makes it very clear, a too vividly apparent transcendent element of sorts, which he says he's worried can only expedite, move up, the day and hour of my professional undoing.
Whereas the historical ideas of Lehmann and Arduino were generally accepted, it became increasingly clear that many diverse locally defined rock successions existed, each with its own unique fauna and apparent position within some sort of "universal" succession.
