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
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.
• choice
• (musical piece): number
• (something selected): option
• (musical piece): piece
• (variety from larger collection): subset
• 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
7 April 2025
(noun) fertilization of a second ovum after a pregnancy has begun; results in two fetuses of different ages in the uterus at the same time; “superfetation is normal in some animal species”
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
