selection
/səˈlɛkʃən/
selection noun: the process or act of selecting. Also the ellipsis of natural selection.
Noun
selection (countable and uncountable, plural selections)
- The process or act of selecting.
- The large number of good candidates made selection difficult.
- Something selected.
- My final selection was a 1934 Chateau Lafite.
- Synonyms:
- option
- A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
- I've brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine.
- Synonyms:
- subset
- A musical piece.
- For my next selection, I'll play Happy Birthday in F-sharp minor.
- A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
- The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments.
- A list of items on which user operations will take place.
- A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
- The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s.
- 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[.]1899, Steele Rudd, chapter 3, in On Our Selection, Sydney: Bulletin
- A plot of land, or farm, thus selected.
- The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding.
Also used as
selection is also the ellipsis of natural selection.
selection meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
selection in Hindi
- process or act of selecting
- चुनना cunnā, चयन करना cayan karnā
- something selected
- चयन cayan, चयनित caynit
selection in Tamil
- தேர்வு, தேர்ந்தெடுப்பு
selection in Marathi
- निवड, निवडी
selection in Urdu
- انتخاب
More languagesFewer languages
- selection in Bengali
- ইন্তেখাব intekhab
- selection in Telugu
- ఎంపిక
- selection in Malayalam
- തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കൽ, സെലക്ഷൻ
- selection in Kannada
- ಆಯ್ಕೆ, ಆಯ್ಕೆಯು
- selection in Punjabi
- ਚੋਣ
- selection in Gujarati
- પસંદગી
- selection in Odia
- ଚଯ଼ନ
- selection in Nepali
- चयन, छनोट
- selection in Tagalog
- pilian
- selection in Malay
- pemilihan
- selection in Persian
- گزینش gozineš, انتخاب entexâb, گزینه gozine, برگزیده bargozide
Examples of selection in a sentence
- The mix should include a good selection of large, medium, and small ag.
- The candidate selection for running mate has catapulted her to the national scene.
- She catapulted to the national scene following her selection by the candidate.
Synonyms of selection
Forms of selection
| plural | selections |
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Origin of selection
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.
Words formed from selection
- 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
Phrases with selection
- selection bias
- selection rule
- selection sort
- selection rules
- selection sorts
- selection biases
- selection effect
- Selection Monday
- Selection Sunday
- sexual selection
- runaway selection
- Selection Mondays
6 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with selection
- section
- connection
- projection
- injection
- collection
- protection
- inflection
- reflection
- affection
- correction
- deflection
- direction
44 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- election
- erection
- complexion
- recollection
- resurrection
- dejection
- dissection
- flexion
- infection
- rejection
- connexion
- convection
- detection
- disconnection
- misdirection
- objection
- perfection
- vection
- advection
- ejection
- imperfection
- inspection
- interjection
- introspection
- lection
- reflexion
- aspection
- callisection
- disinfection
- disruptive selection
- electrotransfection
- indirect election
- insurrection
- police protection
- porrection
- predilection
- retroflexion
- self-infection
- snap election
- ticket inspection
- transfection
- trivection
- type introspection
- vivisection
Questions about selection
- What does selection mean?
- Selection means the process or act of selecting.
- What is selection in Hindi?
- Selection in Hindi is चुनना (cunnā), चयन करना (cayan karnā), चयन (cayan). See Selection meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is selection?
- Selection is a noun.
- How do you pronounce selection?
- Selection is pronounced /səˈlɛkʃən/.
- What is the plural of selection?
- The plural of selection is selections.
Words near selection in the dictionary
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