Usually means: Choosing one option among many.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word selection:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. selection: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. selection: Merriam-Webster
  3. selection: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. selection: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. selection: Collins English Dictionary
  6. selection: Vocabulary.com
  7. Selection, selection: Wordnik
  8. selection: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. selection: Wiktionary
  10. selection: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. selection: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. selection: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. selection: Dictionary.com
  14. selection: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Selection (Australian history), Selection (album), Selection (biology), Selection (disambiguation), Selection (evolution), Selection (evolutionary biology), Selection (genetic algorithm), Selection (genetics), Selection (linguistics), Selection (relational algebra), Selection (user interface), Selection, The Selection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Selection: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. selection: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. selection: Rhymezone
  19. selection: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. selection: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. selection: FreeDictionary.org
  22. selection: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. selection: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. selection: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. selection: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Selection: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. selection: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. selection: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  6. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  7. selection: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)
  4. selection: Evolution Glossary
  5. selection: Natural History Terms
  6. Biodiversity (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. selection: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The process or act of selecting.
noun:  Something selected.
noun:  A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
noun:  A musical piece.
noun:  (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
noun:  (linguistics) The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. ᵂᵖ
noun:  (programming) A list of items on which user operations will take place. ᵂᵖ
noun:  (algebra) A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
noun:  (historical) The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ᵂᵖ
noun:  (Australia) A plot of land, or farm, thus selected.
noun:  (biology) The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. ᵂᵖ
noun:  (biology) Ellipsis of natural selection. [(evolutionary theory) A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.]

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