selection — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. The process or act of selecting.

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   • numerabile
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   Esempi

   The large number of good candidates made selection difficult.

2. Something selected.

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   Esempi

   My final selection was a 1934 Chateau Lafite.

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

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   Esempi

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

4. A musical piece.

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   • numerabile
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   Esempi

   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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   • numerabile
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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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   • numerabile
   • storico
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   Esempi

   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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    • Australia
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    • storico
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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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Sostantivo

1. the act of choosing or selecting

   Sinonimi

   choiceoptionpick

   Termini più generali

   action

   Esempi

   your choice of colors was unfortunate

   you can take your pick

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

   Termini più generali

   assortmentmixturemixed bagmiscellanymiscellaneavarietysalmagundismorgasbordpotpourrimotley

   Esempi

   the store carried a large selection of shoes

3. the person or thing chosen or selected

   Sinonimi

   choicepick

   Termini più generali

   decision makingdeciding

   Esempi

   he was my pick for mayor

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

   Sinonimi

   survivalsurvival of the fittestnatural selection

   Termini più generali

   natural processnatural actionactionactivity

5. a passage selected from a larger work

   Sinonimi

   excerptexcerptionextract

   Termini più generali

   passage

   Esempi

   he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings