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1.nounA process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.
2.nounThe process or act of selecting."The large number of good candidates made selection difficult."
3.nounSomething selected."My final selection was a 1934 Chateau Lafitte."
4.nounA variety of items taken from a larger collection."I've brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine."
5.nounA musical piece."For my next selection, I'll play Happy Birthday in F-sharp minor."
6.nounA set of data obtained from a database using a query.
7.nounThe ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. Wp
8.nounA list of items on which user operations will take place. Wp
9.nounA unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
10.nounThe free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. Wp
11.nounThe stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. Wp