Usually means: Ability to preferentially choose specific options.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. selectivity: Merriam-Webster
  2. selectivity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. selectivity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. selectivity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. selectivity: Vocabulary.com
  6. Selectivity, selectivity: Wordnik
  7. selectivity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. selectivity: Wiktionary
  9. selectivity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. selectivity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. selectivity: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. selectivity: Dictionary.com
  13. Selectivity (electronic), Selectivity (pharmacology), Selectivity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. selectivity: Rhymezone
  15. selectivity: FreeDictionary.org
  16. selectivity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. selectivity: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. selectivity: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. selectivity: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. selectivity: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. selectivity: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. selectivity: PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. selectivity: Electronics
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (selectivity)

noun:  The quality of being selective, or extent to which something is selective.
noun:  The ability of a radio receiver to separate a desired signal frequency from others.
noun:  (chemistry) Discrimination of a reactant towards a choice of other reactants; the ratio of rate constants for different reactants.
noun:  An approach to social work that prioritizes people perceived as having the most need for assistance.

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