selection : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: selection	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for selection
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
selection n the act of choosing or selecting; "your choice of colors was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick" Synonym(s): choice, selection, option, pick an assortment of things from which a choice can be made; "the store carried a large selection of shoes" the person or thing chosen or selected; "he was my pick for mayor" Synonym(s): choice, pick, selection a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment Synonym(s): survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings" Synonym(s): excerpt, excerption, extract, selection
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Selection \Selec"tion\, n. [L. selectio: cf. F. s[82]lection.] . The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference. 2. That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection* of books. {Natural selection}. (Biol.) See under {Natural}.