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selection |
Grep of noun selection natural selection selection Overview of noun selection The noun selection has 5 senses (first 3 from tagged texts) 1. (13) choice, selection, option, pick -- (the act of choosing or selecting; "your choice of colors was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick") 2. (2) selection -- (an assortment of things from which a choice can be made "the store carried a large selection of shoes") 3. (1) choice, pick selection -- (the person or thing chosen or selected; "he was my pick for mayor") 4. survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection -- (a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment) 5. excerpt, extract, selection -- (a passage selected from a larger work "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings") Overview of noun selection The noun selection has 5 senses (first 3 from tagged texts) 1. (13) choice, selection, option, pick -- (the act of choosing or selecting; "your choice of colors was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick") 2. (2) selection -- (an assortment of things from which a choice can be made "the store carried a large selection of shoes") 3. (1) choice, pick selection -- (the person or thing chosen or selected; "he was my pick for mayor") 4. survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection -- (a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment) 5. excerpt, extract, selection -- (a passage selected from a larger work "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings")
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