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selection.

The process or act of selecting.

9 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/səˈlɛkʃən/

  1. The process or act of selecting.

    countable · uncountable
    The large number of good candidates made selection difficult.

  2. Something selected.

    countable · uncountable
    My final selection was a 1934 Chateau Lafite.

  3. A variety of items taken from a larger collection.

    countable · uncountable
    I've brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine.

  4. A musical piece.

    countable · uncountable
    For my next selection, I'll play Happy Birthday in F-sharp minor.

  5. A set of data obtained from a database using a query.

    countable · uncountable

  6. The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments.

    countable · uncountable

  7. A list of items on which user operations will take place.

    countable · uncountable

  8. A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.

    countable · uncountable

  9. The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s.

    countable · historical · uncountable

  10. The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. A plot of land, or farm, thus selected.

    Australia · countable · historical · uncountable

  11. The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding.

    countable · uncountable

  12. Ellipsis of natural selection.

    abbreviation · alt-of · countable · ellipsis · uncountable
Where this word comes from

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.

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