selection

The act of selecting something.

One that is selected, such as a literary or musical text chosen for reading or performance.

A carefully chosen or representative collection of people or things.

A range of things from which one can make a choice: synonym: choice.

A natural or artificial process that involves the survival and reproduction of some kinds of organisms instead of others (because they have traits that are better adapted to the environment or that are preferred by a breeder, for example) and results in changes in the traits of a population or species.

Same as free-selection.

In Australia, a station; land ‘selected’ or obtained cheaply from the government by a settler; a stock-farm.

plural The highest grade of the heavy export tobacco. See export tobacco.

A hypothetical struggle for existence among the here litary units in the chromatin of a germ-cell, and the survival of the fittest, and the corresponding modification of the germ-plasm or hereditary substance. See substance of heredity.