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

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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

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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

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