selector — English Dictionary

selector
Pronunciations
  • /sɪˈlɛktə(ɹ)/

Noun

  1. Someone or something which selects or chooses.

    Examples

    There is one selection for hot chocolate. All selectors are the push button type.

  2. An administrator responsible for selecting which players will play for a side.

  3. A matching expression in a stylesheet determining which elements in the markup are affected by a style.

    Examples

    The ID selector targets just one element per page, making it much more specific than a class selector that might target many.

    The selector indicates the query expression to run over the DOM; the context indicates the portion of the DOM from which to run the query.

  4. A pointer to a structure describing a segment of memory.

    Examples

    Phar Lap executables […] provide a protected-mode selector, 34h, that maps to the first megabyte of physical memory.

    You will only have to be concerned with DPMI, selectors, and such, if you use Borland C++ in DOS.

  5. A text string transmitted to a Gopher server, identifying the resource to be retrieved.

    Usage
    • Internet
    • Historical
    Examples

    Gopher selector strings are more liberal in makeup than URLs and may contain any characters other than a tab, return, or linefeed.

  6. A disc jockey.

    Examples

    That's my sector, homosexual dissector / Come again, rewind selector

    More examples (1)

    This sonic body has to decide which music track to play at any particular moment. But when the selector is alone in front of the crowd, how do they know which track to play next?

  7. A person who is entitled to choose a tract of Crown land to purchase.

    Usage
    • Australia
    • Historical
    Examples

    Each selector in turn chose the particular allotment he wanted for his client, and so on till this important work was over.

Noun

  1. a person who chooses or selects out

    Broader terms
  2. a switch that is used to select among alternatives

Word forms
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