selection — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. The process or act of selecting.

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   The large number of good candidates made selection difficult.

2. Something selected.

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   My final selection was a 1934 Chateau Lafite.

3. A variety of items taken from a larger collection.

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   I've brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine.

4. A musical piece.

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   For my next selection, I'll play Happy Birthday in F-sharp minor.

5. A set of data obtained from a database using a query.

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6. The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments.

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7. A list of items on which user operations will take place.

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8. A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.

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9. The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s.

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   Our selection adjoined a sheep-run on the Darling Downs, and boasted […] a forest of box-trees, a stock-yard, and six acres under barley[.]

10. The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. A plot of land, or farm, thus selected.

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11. The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding.

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Substantiv

1. the act of choosing or selecting

   Synonyme

   choiceoptionpick

   Oberbegriffe

   action

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   your choice of colors was unfortunate

   you can take your pick

2. an assortment of things from which a choice can be made

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   assortmentmixturemixed bagmiscellanymiscellaneavarietysalmagundismorgasbordpotpourrimotley

   Beispiele

   the store carried a large selection of shoes

3. the person or thing chosen or selected

   Synonyme

   choicepick

   Oberbegriffe

   decision makingdeciding

   Beispiele

   he was my pick for mayor

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

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   survivalsurvival of the fittestnatural selection

   Oberbegriffe

   natural processnatural actionactionactivity

5. a passage selected from a larger work

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   excerptexcerptionextract

   Oberbegriffe

   passage

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   he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings