ALL meanings of selection
se·lec·tion
S s - noun selection choice 1
- noun selection assortment 1
- noun selection act of selecting 1
- noun selection an act or instance of selecting or the state of being selected; choice. 1
- noun selection a thing or a number of things selected. 1
- noun selection an aggregate of things displayed for choice, purchase, use, etc.; a group from which a choice may be made: The store had a wide selection of bracelets. 1
- noun selection Biology. any natural or artificial process that results in differential reproduction among the members of a population so that the inheritable traits of only certain individuals are passed on, or are passed on in greater proportion, to succeeding generations. Compare natural selection, sexual selection, kin selection, artificial selection. 1
- noun selection Linguistics. the choice of one form instead of another in a position where either can occur, as of ask instead of tell or with in the phrase ask me. the choice of one semantic or syntactic class of words in a construction, to the exclusion of others that do not occur there, as the choice of an animate object for the verb surprise. 1
- uncountable noun selection Selection is the act of selecting one or more people or things from a group. 0
- countable noun selection A selection of people or things is a set of them that have been selected from a larger group. 0
- countable noun selection The selection of goods in a shop is the particular range of goods that it has available and from which you can choose what you want. 0
- noun selection the act or an instance of selecting or the state of being selected 0
- noun selection a thing or number of things that have been selected 0
- noun selection a range from which something may be selected 0
- noun selection the natural or artificial process by which certain organisms or characters are reproduced and perpetuated in the species in preference to others 0
- noun selection a contestant in a race chosen as likely to win or come second or third 0
- noun selection the act of free-selecting 0
- noun selection a tract of land acquired by free-selection 0
- noun selection a selecting or being selected 0
- noun selection a person or thing chosen 0
- noun selection a group or collection of these 0
- noun selection a variety from which to choose 0
- noun selection any process, natural or artificial, by which certain organisms or characters are favored or perpetuated in, or as if in, preference to others 0
- noun selection The selection in a store is the choice or range of goods available to customers of that store. 0