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selection

noun
/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.

  1. learned borrowing from sēlēctiō

Definitions

  1. The process or act of selecting.

    • The large number of good candidates made selection difficult.

  2. Something selected.

    • My final selection was a 1934 Chateau Lafite.

  3. A variety of items taken from a larger collection.

    • I've brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine.
  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. A musical piece.

      • For my next selection, I'll play Happy Birthday in F-sharp minor.

    2. A set of data obtained from a database using a query.

    3. The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. ᵂᵖ

    4. A list of items on which user operations will take place. ᵂᵖ

    5. A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.

    6. The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land…

      The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ᵂᵖ

      • 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[.]

    7. The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population…

      The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. ᵂᵖ

    8. Ellipsis of natural selection.

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Derived

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 · +71 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at selection. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at selection. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at selection

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA