Selection - Definition

n 1: the act of choosing or selecting; "your choice of colors
was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick" [syn: choice,
selection, option, pick]
2: an assortment of things from which a choice can be made; "the
store carried a large selection of shoes"
3: the person or thing chosen or selected; "he was my pick for
mayor" [syn: choice, pick, selection]
4: a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms
best adapted to the environment [syn: survival, survival
of the fittest, natural selection, selection]
5: a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts
from William James' philosophical writings" [syn: excerpt,
excerption, extract, selection]