English Online Dictionary. What means selection? What does selection mean?
English
Etymology
From Latin sēlēctiō (“the act of choosing out, selection”), from sēlēctus, perfect passive participle of sēligō (“choose out, select”), from sē- (“apart”) + legō (“gather, select”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /səˈlɛkʃən/
- Rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Noun
selection (countable and uncountable, plural selections)
- The process or act of selecting.
- Something selected.
- A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
- A musical piece.
- (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
- (linguistics) The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. Wp
- (programming) A list of items on which user operations will take place. Wp
- (algebra) A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
- (historical) The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. Wp
- (biology) The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. Wp
- (biology) Ellipsis of natural selection.
Synonyms
- choice
- (something selected): option
- (musical piece): number, piece
- (variety from larger collection): subset
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Further reading
- “selection”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “selection”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
- elections, selenotic, telesonic