selection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈlɛkʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: 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.
Senses: examples: text: The large number of good candidates made selection difficult.
glosses: The process or act of selecting.
examples: text: My final selection was a 1934 Chateau Lafite.
glosses: Something selected.
examples: text: I've brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine.
glosses: A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
examples: text: For my next selection, I'll play Happy Birthday in F-sharp minor.
glosses: A musical piece.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. ᵂᵖ
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A list of items on which user operations will take place. ᵂᵖ
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
examples: text: 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[.]
ref: 1899, Steele Rudd, chapter 3, in On Our Selection, Sydney: Bulletin:
glosses: The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ᵂᵖ
glosses: The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ᵂᵖ
A plot of land, or farm, thus selected.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. ᵂᵖ
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Natural Selection”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 109:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of natural selection.
Synonyms: word: choice
sense: something selected
word: option
sense: musical piece
word: number
sense: musical piece
word: piece
sense: variety from larger collection
word: subset
Derived terms: word: adverse selection
word: ambidirectional selection
word: apostatic selection
word: artificial selection
word: asexual selection
word: autoselection
word: background selection
word: balancing selection
word: bioselection
word: chemoselection
word: clonal selection
word: compatibility selection
word: contraselection
word: coselection
word: cosmological natural selection
word: counterselection
word: c-selection
word: deme selection
word: demic selection
word: deselection
word: directional selection
word: disruptive selection
word: diversifying selection
word: downselection
word: eclection
word: ecological selection
word: enantioselection
word: environmental selection
word: eugenic selection
word: fecundity selection
word: forum selection agreement
word: forum selection clause
word: frequency-dependent selection
word: gametic selection
word: gene selection
word: genetic selection
word: genic selection
word: group selection
word: Helly's selection theorem
word: hierarchical selection
word: higher-level selection
word: homoselection
word: immunoselection
word: individual selection
word: inevitable selection
word: interdeme selection
word: interdemic selection
word: intersexual selection
word: interspecies selection
word: intrademe selection
word: intrademic selection
word: intrasexual selection
word: intraspecies selection
word: kin selection
word: K-selection
word: lower-level selection
word: misselection
english: MLS
translation: MLS
word: multilevel selection
word: multiselection
word: natural selection
word: natural selectional
word: natural selectionary
word: negative selection
word: non-selection
word: nonselection
word: organismal selection
word: organismic selection
word: orthoselection
word: overselection
word: panselection
word: panselectionism
word: panselectionist
word: photoselection
word: positive selection
word: postselection
word: preselection
word: purified selection
word: purifying selection
word: r/K selection theory
word: regioselection
word: reselection
word: r-selection
word: runaway selection
word: selectional
word: selectionary
word: selection bias
word: selection effect
word: selectionism
word: selectionist
word: selection rule
word: selection sort
word: self-selection
word: sexual selection
word: simultaneous selection
word: species selection
word: s-selection
word: stabilising selection
word: stabilizing selection
word: strong selection
word: subselection
word: supernatural selection
word: superselection
word: supraorgamismal selection
word: survival selection
word: theory of natural selection
word: underselection
word: unit of selection
word: unnatural selection
word: unselection
word: viability selection
word: weak selection
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