selection
/səˈlɛkʃən/ · noun
Meaning
- A 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.
- The process or act of selecting.
- Something selected.
- A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
- A musical piece.
- A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
- The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. Wp
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