Definition of "selection"

The process or act of selecting.  examples

Something selected.  examples

A variety of items taken from a larger collection.  examples

A musical piece.  examples

(databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.  examples

(linguistics) The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments.  examples

(programming) A list of items on which user operations will take place.  examples

(algebra) A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.  examples

(historical) The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s.

(biology) The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding.

(biology) Ellipsis of natural selection.  quotations