Selection is all about choosing. Think about a salad bar: you can make a selection from among several choices, with croutons always being a popular selection.
The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.
Noun
the act of choosing or selecting; "your choice of colors was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick"
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the person or thing chosen or selected; "he was my pick for mayor"
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a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James'' philosophical writings"
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an assortment of things from which a choice can be made; "the store carried a large selection of shoes"
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a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
n.
The act of selecting, or the state of being selected;
choice, by preference.
n.
That which is selected; a collection of things chosen;
as, a choice selection of books.
Selection
The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.
Usage Examples
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.
I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.
Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.
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Other Usage ExamplesI bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
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