selection

Meaning

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

Synonyms

choice

option

pick

⛏️

assortment

election

excerpt

choosing

range

extract

adoption

natural selection

set

picking

picking out

anthology

excerption

survival of the fittest

screening

alternative

preference

variety

abstract

survival

picking up

voting

cull

sample

dialing

array

sifting

segment

select

selective

selective breeding

sorting

stock

summary

trade-off

triage

washout

wash out

way

weed out

artificial selection

act of choosing

making a choice

selected extracts

weeding out

diagnosis

discrimination

Translations

sélection

Auswahl

selezione

selección

choix

Auslese

scelta

Wahl

elección

escolha

seleção

Selektion

keus

επιλογή

selecció

Pronounced as (IPA)

/səˈlɛkʃən/

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.