Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
SELECTION
choice, selection, option, pick
(noun) the act of choosing or selecting; “your choice of colors was unfortunate”; “you can take your pick”
choice, pick, selection
(noun) the person or thing chosen or selected; “he was my pick for mayor”
excerpt, excerption, extract, selection
(noun) a passage selected from a larger work; “he presented excerpts from William James’ philosophical writings”
selection
(noun) an assortment of things from which a choice can be made; “the store carried a large selection of shoes”
survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection
(noun) a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
selection (countable and uncountable, plural selections)
The process or act of selecting.
Something selected.
A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
A musical piece.
(databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
(linguistics) The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. Wp
(programming) A list of items on which user operations will take place. Wp
(algebra) A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
(historical) The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. Wp
(biology) The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. Wp
(biology) Ellipsis of natural selection.
Synonyms
• choice
• (musical piece): number
• (something selected): option
• (musical piece): piece
• (variety from larger collection): subset
Anagrams
• elections, selenotic, telesonic
Source: Wiktionary
Se*lec"tion, n. Etym: [L. selectio: cf. F. sélection.] .
Definition: The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.
2. That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books. Natural selection. (Biol.) See under Natural.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Word of the Day
10 January 2025
INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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