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selectivity

noun

Etymology

From selective + -ity.

Definitions

  1. The quality of being selective, or extent to which something is selective.

    • […] while music was known to have scientific qualities — harmony, Pythagorean proportional relationship, etc. — it was the musician who by his selectivity made these proportions beautiful, […]
    • “We must stop conflating selectivity with excellence. We must stop correlating prestige with privilege,” he said.

  2. The ability of a radio receiver to separate a desired signal frequency from others.

  3. Discrimination of a reactant towards a choice of other reactants

    Discrimination of a reactant towards a choice of other reactants; the ratio of rate constants for different reactants.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. An approach to social work that prioritizes people perceived as having the most need for…

      An approach to social work that prioritizes people perceived as having the most need for assistance.

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Derived

atroposelectivity, cardioselectivity, chemoselectivity, electroselectivity, enantioselectivity, hepatoselectivity, isoselectivity, monoselectivity, neuroselectivity, nonselectivity, periselectivity, phosphoselectivity, photoselectivity, regioselectivity, stereoselectivity, torquoselectivity, unselectivity

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for selectivity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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