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Meaning of selection

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  selection
      n 1: the act of choosing or selecting; "your choice of colors
           was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick" [syn: {choice},
           {selection}, {option}, {pick}]
      2: an assortment of things from which a choice can be made; "the
         store carried a large selection of shoes"
      3: the person or thing chosen or selected; "he was my pick for
         mayor" [syn: {choice}, {pick}, {selection}]
      4: a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms
         best adapted to the environment [syn: {survival}, {survival
         of the fittest}, {natural selection}, {selection}]
      5: a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts
         from William James' philosophical writings" [syn: {excerpt},
         {excerption}, {extract}, {selection}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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