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SELECTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of choosing or selecting
Example:
you can take your pick
Synonyms:
choice; option; pick; selection
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("selection" is a kind of...):
action (something done (usually as opposed to something said))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "selection"):
casting (the choice of actors to play particular roles in a play or movie)
coloration; colouration (choice and use of colors (as by an artist))
sampling ((statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study)
conclusion; decision; determination (the act of making up your mind about something)
volition; willing (the act of making a choice)
election (the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice)
ballot; balloting; vote; voting (a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative)
Derivation:
select (pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The person or thing chosen or selected
Example:
he was my pick for mayor
Synonyms:
choice; pick; selection
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("selection" is a kind of...):
deciding; decision making (the cognitive process of reaching a decision)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "selection"):
pleasure (a formal expression)
favorite; favourite (something regarded with special favor or liking)
way (doing as one pleases or chooses)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A passage selected from a larger work
Example:
he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings
Synonyms:
excerpt; excerption; extract; selection
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("selection" is a kind of...):
passage (a section of text; particularly a section of medium length)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "selection"):
chrestomathy (a selection of passages from different authors that is compiled as an aid in learning a language)
analecta; analects (a collection of excerpts from a literary work)
clipping; cutting; newspaper clipping; press clipping; press cutting (an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine)
cut; track (a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc)
citation; quotation; quote (a passage or expression that is quoted or cited)
Instance hyponyms:
Haftarah; Haftorah; Haphtarah; Haphtorah (a short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue following a reading from the Torah)
Sense 4
Meaning:
An assortment of things from which a choice can be made
Example:
the store carried a large selection of shoes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("selection" is a kind of...):
assortment; miscellanea; miscellany; mixed bag; mixture; motley; potpourri; salmagundi; smorgasbord; variety (a collection containing a variety of sorts of things)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
Synonyms:
natural selection; selection; survival; survival of the fittest
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("selection" is a kind of...):
action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))
Context examples:
Because these systems involve the selection of individual letters or whole words to build sentences, the speed at which they can operate is very limited.
(Scientists translate brain signals into speech sounds, National Institutes of Health)
The expressed CD34 moiety of the chimeric suicide gene serves as a selection marker; mutant 75 of HSV-TK confers increased GCV sensitivity.
(CD34/TK75 Retroviral Vector-Transduced Donor Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)
The presence of this enzyme confers chloramphenicol resistance to bacteria, which is used as a marker for selection in molecular techniques that utilize genetic transfection.
(Chloramphenicol O-acetyltransferase, NCI Thesaurus)
The science and technology dealing with the procurement, breeding, care, health, and selection of animals used in biomedical research and testing.
(Laboratory Animal Science, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
The Laboratory Animal Shared Resource is responsible for the supply, use, husbandry, and experimental model selection and development of laboratory animals utilized by the research programs at Cancer Center.
(Laboratory Animal Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
A mature T-lymphocyte that has differentiated in the bone marrow and undergone central tolerance selection in the thymus but has not interacted with its cognate antigen.
(Naive T-Lymphocyte, NCI Thesaurus)
The science and technology concerned with the procurement, selection, health and welfare of animals used in research and testing.
(Laboratory Animal Science, NCI Thesaurus)
Deviation from this ratio indicates that some force is acting on the population (e.g., selection, mutation, migration, genetic drift, non-random mating).
(Hardy-Weinberg Distribution, NCI Thesaurus)
As a result, HA antibody levels have traditionally been used to guide vaccine strain selection and to infer how effective that vaccine might be against circulating viruses until field studies are available.
(Study finds factors that may influence influenza vaccine effectiveness, NIH)
Tissue oxygenation measurement is a useful tool for appropriate patient selection for HBO therapy and for choosing strategies for management of peripheral vascular diseases, chronic nonhealing wounds and other conditions.
(Cutaneous Oximetry, NCI Thesaurus)
