selector : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: selector	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for selector
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
selector n a person who chooses or selects out [syn: picker, chooser, selector] a switch that is used to select among alternatives Synonym(s): selector, selector switch
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Selector \Se*lect"or\, n. [L.] One who selects.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
selector 1. In {Smalltalk} or {Objective C}, the {syntax} of a message which selects a particular {method} in the target {object}. 2. An operation that returns the state of an object but does not alter that state. Selector {functions} or {method}s often have names which begin with "get" and corresponding {modifier} methods or {procedures} whose names begin with "set". (1998-01-12)