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The quiet art of making something fit that wasn't there before.
means The act of putting one thing into, between, or within another thing — or that thing once placed.
from From Latin insertio, built on inserere — 'in-' (into) plus serere, 'to join or put in a row,' the same serere that gives us 'series' and 'sort.' Latin writers used it literally (grafting a branch, threading something into a text), and English borrowed the noun whole in the 1500s to describe exactly that: slipping something new into a space that already had its own order.
- sorting cousin
- builds a sorted list one element at a time
- big O
- worst case O(n squared), best case O(n)
- biology use
- where a muscle attaches to the moving bone
- editing term
- adding text without deleting what's already there