Selection synonyms
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Part of speech:
The act of choosing; selection:
An instance of this:
The settling of a question or case by an authoritative decision or pronouncement, especially by a judicial body:
The condition of a husband and wife who remain married but who live apart, whether by mutual agreement or by decree of a court. See also divorce.
A long-toothed comb, usually designed for use on curly hair.
Money collected, as during a church service
collectanea
A selection of passages from one or more authors; an anthology.
The act of making a choice.
The right of a creditor to priority of payment.
co-optation
Alternative spelling of cooptation.
An act or instance of appropriating.
In family law, the legal process that establishes a parent/child relationship between individuals who are not related by blood. Once the adoption is completed, the adoptive child becomes entitled to all the privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents, and the adoptive parents acquire all the legal rights, duties, and obligations of the child’s natural parents. Furthermore, all legal rights, duties, and obligations between the child and his or her natural parents (except, in some states, the obligation to pay delinquent child support payments) terminates upon the completion of the adoption.
An arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance, as in a hotel or restaurant or on an airplane.
A passage or segment taken from a longer work, such as a literary or musical composition, a document, or a film.
The concept that, in a society, industry, corporation, etc., those individuals or groups who are superior or best suited will succeed in the competitive struggle for success or dominance
The process by which organisms that are better suited to their environment than others produce more offspring. As a result of natural selection, the proportion of organisms in a species with characteristics that are adaptive to a given environment increases with each generation. Therefore, natural selection modifies the originally random variation of genetic traits in a species so that alleles that are beneficial for survival predominate, while alleles that are not beneficial decrease. Originally proposed by Charles Darwin, natural selection forms the basis of the process of evolution.
sexual-selection
The process in nature by which individuals with certain traits, especially secondary sex characteristics such as colorful plumage and large antlers, are chosen more often for mating and thus pass those traits on to their offspring.
unconscious selection
An evolutionary process
methodical selection
An evolutionary process
A partial or slight change in form or content
change by sport
An evolutionary process
(Physiology) The responsive adjustment of a sense organ, such as the eye, to varying conditions, such as light intensity.
Darwinian process
An evolutionary process
The principle that living organisms develop only from other living organisms and not from nonliving matter.
Mendelian fitness
An evolutionary process
A collection of varying but related items.
An extensive area of open land on which livestock wander and graze.
The quality or condition of being various or varied; diversity:
reading (related)
Making fine distinctions; discerning
Selecting from various systems, doctrines, or sources
(Electronics) Able to reject frequencies other than the one selected or tuned.
analecta
analects
Collected literary excerpts or passages
A miscellany, assortment, or catalog, as of complaints, comments, or ideas:
chrestomathy
A collection of written passages, used to learn an unfamiliar language.
Treatment or consideration based on class or category, such as race or gender, rather than individual merit; partiality or prejudice.
The process or method of selecting one or more individuals from a group, as for a service or duty:
A contract or financial instrument granting such a right:
A path, channel, or duct through, over, or along which something may pass:
The state or quality of being selective
A group of voters alike in some way:
To determine or decide:
To take as a choice from among several; pick out.
indiscrimination (antonym)
promiscuity (antonym)
rejection (antonym)
refusal (antonym)
a passage selected from a larger work
A concentrated form, whether solid, viscid, or liquid, of a food, flavoring, etc.
Something, such as an ancient custom or belief, that has survived.
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