0 present participle of shuffle
1 to walk by pulling your feet slowly along the ground rather than lifting them:
2 to move similar things from one position or place to another, often to give an appearance of activity when nothing useful is being done:
3 to mix a set of playing cards without seeing their values before beginning a game, so that their order is not known to any of the players:
The new population is generated after shuffling the old population and applying to it crossover and mutation.
Shuffling the offspring: uncoupling and spatial discordance of multiple stages in vertebrate seed dispersal.
Throughout all, there is a constant shuffling of partners, as men and women form strategic alliances to advance their careers.
Unless stated, the shuffle correlograms shown in the figures were obtained by shuffling sections of four stimulus cycles five times and averaging these shuffles.
Others are more complex developments of initial concepts; for example, shuffling is derived from 'micro-editing' but randomly used on one or two intermingled sounds.
Using randomization tests, the effect of such spatial autocorrelation on statistical tests can be eliminated by shuffling the habitat types within a plot.
The author explains these by looking at a number of different card shuffling models.
Her uneasiness is also manifest in a nervous shuffling about, in her tense shoulders, and an insecure grin on her face.
