selection

noun

A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.

1. The process or act of selecting.

   The large number of good candidates made selection difficult.

2. Something selected.

   My final selection was a 1934 Chateau Lafitte.

3. A variety of items taken from a larger collection.

   I've brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine.

4. A musical piece.

   For my next selection, I'll play Happy Birthday in F-sharp minor.

5. A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
6. The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. Wp
7. A list of items on which user operations will take place. Wp
8. A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
9. The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. Wp
10. The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. Wp