- an act or instance of selecting or the state of being selected; choice.
- a thing or a number of things selected.
- an aggregate of things displayed for choice, purchase, use, etc.; a group from which a choice may be made: The store had a wide selection of bracelets.
- any natural or artificial process that results in differential reproduction among the members of a population so that the inheritable traits of only certain individuals are passed on, or are passed on in greater proportion, to succeeding generations.
- Linguistics.
- the choice of one form instead of another in a position where either can occur, as of ask instead of tell or with in the phrase ask me.
- the choice of one semantic or syntactic class of words in a construction, to the exclusion of others that do not occur there, as the choice of an animate object for the verb surprise.
- the act or an instance of selecting or the state of being selected
- a thing or number of things that have been selected
- a range from which something may be selected
- the natural or artificial process by which certain organisms or characters are reproduced and perpetuated in the species in preference to others
- a contestant in a race chosen as likely to win or come second or third
- Australian
- the act of free-selecting
- a tract of land acquired by free-selection
