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selection

Pronunciation: /səˈlɛkʃən/

The English word “selection” has 11 meanings listed here.

noun

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

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.

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