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Selection

🔄 Synonyms of "Selection"

7 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
choicenoun	An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
extractverb	Something that is extracted or drawn out.
pickverb	A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
excerptnoun	A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.
survivalnoun	The fact or act of surviving; continued existence or life.
natural selectionnoun	(evolutionary theory) 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.
survival of the fittestnoun	(evolutionary theory) Natural selection.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Selection"

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
choicenoun	An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
survivalnoun	The fact or act of surviving; continued existence or life.
extractnoun	Something that is extracted or drawn out.
excerptnoun	A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.
survival of the fittestnoun	(evolutionary theory) Natural selection.
picknoun	A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
natural selectionnoun	(evolutionary theory) 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.
selectornoun	Someone or something which selects or chooses.
picked	Chosen; selected.
selective	(of a person) Choosy, fussy or discriminating when selecting.
selectedverb	That have been selected or chosen.
chosennoun	(historical) A former colony of Japan in East Asia; Korea under Japanese rule, from 1910 through 1945.
selectnoun	A button (of a joystick, joypad or similar device) that, when pressed, activates any of certain predefined functions that usually, but not always, involve selecting something out of a list of items.
electnoun	One chosen or set apart.
choosenoun	(obsolete, Northern England, Scotland) The act of choosing; selection.
optionnoun	One of a set of choices that can be made.
selectivitynoun	The quality of being selective, or extent to which something is selective.
choosingnoun	The act of making a choice.
selectablenoun	(graphical user interface) An item that can be selected by the user.
decisionnoun	The act of deciding.