English Explanatory Dictionary

selection

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

/səˈlɛkʃən/ en-us-selection.ogg

Word forms

selection selections

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sēlēctiō (“the act of choosing out, selection”), from sēligō (“choose out, select”), from sē- (“apart”) + legō (“gather, select”). Equivalent to select + -ion.

Synonyms

choice option subset number piece

Related words

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

Derived words

adverse selection ambidirectional selection apostatic selection artificial selection asexual selection autoselection background selection balancing selection bioselection chemoselection clonal selection compatibility selection contraselection coselection cosmological natural selection counterselection c-selection deme selection demic selection deselection directional selection disruptive selection diversifying selection downselection eclection ecological selection enantioselection environmental selection eugenic selection fecundity selection forum selection agreement forum selection clause frequency-dependent selection gametic selection gene selection genetic selection genic selection group selection Helly's selection theorem hierarchical selection higher-level selection homoselection immunoselection individual selection inevitable selection interdeme selection interdemic selection intersexual selection interspecies selection intrademe selection intrademic selection intrasexual selection intraspecies selection kin selection K-selection lower-level selection misselection multilevel selection multiselection natural selection
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