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selection

noun

1 selection

The act of choosing or selecting.

synonyms: choice, option, pick.

Roget 75: class, division, category, categorema, head, order, section; department, subdepartment, province, domain.    kind, sort, genus, ... show more

Roget 609: choice, option; discretion etc. (volition) 600; preoption; alternative; dilemma, embarras de choix [Fr.]; adoption, cooptation; novation; decision ... show more

Dutch: keus, keuze
Polish: typowanie, selekcjonowanie, wybieranie

2 selection

An assortment of things from which a choice can be made.

Polish: wybór

3 selection

The person or thing chosen or selected.

synonyms: choice, pick.

Dutch: keus, keuze, selectie

4 selection

A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment.

synonyms: natural selection, survival, survival of the fittest.

Dutch: natuurlijke selectie, overleving
Polish: dobór naturalny

5 selection

A passage selected from a larger work.

synonyms: excerpt, excerption, extract.

Dutch: fragment, passage, passage, fragment, epitome, excerpt, extract, uittreksel
Polish: ekscerpt


Moby thesaurus: abstract, acumen, allocation, alternative, alternativity, appointment, assignment, assortment, attribution, batch, categorization, characterization, choice, choosing, co-optation, co-option, collection, culling, decision, denomination ... show more.

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