Selection vs. Selectness

By Jaxson

  • Selection (noun)

    The process or act of selecting.

    “The large number of good candidates made selection difficult.”

  • Selection (noun)

    Something selected.

    “My final selection was a 1934 Chateau Lafitte.”

  • Selection (noun)

    A variety of items taken from a larger collection.

    “I’ve brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine.”

  • Selection (noun)

    A musical piece.

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

  • Selection (noun)

    A set of data obtained from a database using a query.

  • Selection (noun)

    The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. Wp

  • Selection (noun)

    A list of items on which user operations will take place. Wp

  • Selection (noun)

    A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.

  • Selection (noun)

    The free selection before survey of colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. Wp

  • Selection (noun)

    The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. Wp

  • Selectness (noun)

    The property of being select.

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