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Another word for selection

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selection

n.

The act of selecting
choice, election, determination, choosing, preference, co-optation, appropriation, adoption, reservation, separation.
Anything selected
pick, collection, excerpt; see choice 3, reading 3.
An evolutionary process
survival of the fittest, natural selection, sexual selection, unconscious selection, methodical selection, modification, change by sport, adaptation, Darwinian process, biogenesis, Mendelian fitness.
A variety from which to choose
choice, assortment, range, variety; see choice 2. See syn. study at choice.

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Another word for selection

noun

The act of choosing:

choice, election, option, preference. See choice

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The natural selection process is survival of the fittest.
The machine was set for "random selection" so no one was cheated.
For English readers the selection in G.
Megan considered the selection and ordered a pound of lunchmeat sliced thick.
Thus it is that the variations are produced upon which natural selection has to work.

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