Word: Selection
How to pronounce: sɪˈlekʃn
Noun
Definitions:
1. The action or fact of carefully choosing someone or something as being the best or most suitable.
Example sentences: "Such men decided the selection of candidates"
2. A process in which environmental or genetic influences determine which types of organism thrive better than others, regarded as a factor in evolution.
Example sentences: "There has been more than enough time for selection to generate specific DNA sequences of the required length"
Synonyms:
election
choice
allocation
option
alternative
picking
choosing
discretion
way
bet
preference
recruitment
variety
number
choose
pick
sampling
sample
chosen
excerpt
extract
natural selection
survival
Derivations:
selecting
selected
selectable
selective
selector
selectivity
select
selectively
selectionist
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Selection in Other Languages...
Spanish: Selección
German: Auswahl
French: Sélection
Italian: Selezione
Turkish: Seçi
