selection

Plural: selections

Noun

• the act of choosing or selecting
• an assortment of things from which a choice can be made
  • "the store carried a large selection of shoes"
• the person or thing chosen or selected
• a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
• a passage selected from a larger work
• The process or act of selecting.
• Something selected.
• A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
• A musical piece.
• A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
• The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. ᵂᵖ
• A list of items on which user operations will take place. ᵂᵖ
• A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
• The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ᵂᵖ
• The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ᵂᵖ
• A plot of land, or farm, thus selected.
• The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. ᵂᵖ
• Ellipsis of natural selection.

Examples

• For my next selection, I'll play Happy Birthday in F-sharp minor.
• I've brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine.
• My final selection was a 1934 Chateau Lafite.
• The large number of good candidates made selection difficult.

Synonyms

choice, excerpt, excerption, extract, natural selection, option, pick, survival, survival of the fittest, number, piece, subset

Related Words

elect, election, elective, elite, elitism, elitist, panselective, panselectivist, select, selectability, selectable, selectance, selectee, selective, selectively, selectiveness, selectivity, selectly, selectman, selectness, selector, élite, élitism, élitist