Meaning of selection | Babel Free

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

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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