selection

Definitions

1. The process or act of selecting.
   countable, uncountable
2. choice
3. Something selected.
   countable, uncountable
4. national sports team
5. A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
   countable, uncountable
6. A musical piece.
   countable, uncountable
7. A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
   countable, uncountable
8. The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. ᵂᵖ
   countable, uncountable
9. A list of items on which user operations will take place. ᵂᵖ
   countable, uncountable
10. A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
    countable, uncountable
11. The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ᵂᵖ
    countable, historical, uncountable
12. A plot of land, or farm, thus selected.
    Australia, countable, historical, uncountable
13. The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. ᵂᵖ
    countable, uncountable
14. Ellipsis of natural selection.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable

Equivalents

39 more languages

العربيةاصطفاءالإختيارانتقاء

Беларускаяадборвыбарселе́кцыя

Българскиизбор

বাংলাইন্তেখাব

Bosanskiasortimanbrakodabirselekcijaselekcijskiасортиманизбородабирселекцијаселекцијски+ 7 more

Catalàselecció

Češtinaselekcevýběr

Danskvalg

Ελληνικάεπιλογήποικιλία

Euskaraaukeraaukeraketa

فارسیانتخابگزینشگزینه

Suomiselektiosortimenttitarjontatarjoomavalikoimavalintavalitseminen+ 4 more

Gaeilgerogha

Gàidhligtaghadh

Galegoescollaescolmaselección

हिन्दीइंतख़ाबचयनचयनितचुननाचुनावनिर्वाचनवरण+ 4 more

Hrvatskiasortimanbrakodabirselekcijaselekcijskiасортиманизбородабирселекцијаселекцијски+ 7 more

Magyardöntéskiválasztásszelekcióválasztásválasztékválogatás+ 3 more

Հայերենընտրություն

Bahasa Indonesiaimtihanpemilihanseleksi

Italianoselezione

日本語セレクトチョイス取捨選選択選集+ 3 more

한국어고름발탁선정선택+ 1 more

Kurdîbrakîmtîhan

Latinadelectusdilectuselectiosēlēctiō+ 1 more

Latviešuizvēle

Te Reo Māorikōwhiri

Bahasa Melayupemilihan

Polskibrakdobórobióroborowyselekcjaselekcyjnywelunekwybiórczywybór+ 6 more

Portuguêsseleção

Românăalegereculegereselectareselecție+ 1 more

Русскийвыборвыборкаотбо́рподборкаселекция+ 2 more

Slovenčinavoľbavýber

Slovenščinaizbira

Српскиasortimanbrakodabirselekcijaselekcijskiасортиманизбородабирселекцијаселекцијски+ 7 more

Svenskagallringurvaluttagning

Tagalogpilian

Türkçeayıklanmaayırmaintihapıstıfaseçenekseçmeseleksiyon+ 4 more

Українськаасортівибірвиділеннявідбірдобіркапідбір+ 3 more

Examples

“The large number⟳ of good candidates made selection difficult.”

“My final selection was a 1934 Chateau Lafite.”

“I've brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine.”

“For my next selection, I'll play⟳ Happy Birthday in F-sharp minor.”

“Our selection adjoined a sheep-run on the Darling Downs, and boasted […] a forest of box-trees, a stock-yard, and six acres under barley[.]”

“Slow though the process⟳ of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, I can see⟳ no limit⟳ to the amount of change⟳, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with another and with their physical conditions of life, which may be effected in the long course of time by nature’s power of selection.”

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