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Selection may refer to:
Science
- Selection (biology), also called natural selection, selection in evolution
- Sex selection, in genetics
- Mate selection, in mating
- Sexual selection in humans, in human sexuality
- Human mating strategies, in human sexuality
- Social selection, within social groups
- Selection (linguistics), the ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments
- Selection in schools, the admission of students on the basis of selective criteria
- Selection effect, a distortion of data arising from the way that the data are collected
- A selection, or choice function, a function that selects an element from a set
Religion
- Divine selection, selection by God
- Papal selection, selection by clergy
Computing
- Selection (user interface)
- Selection (genetic algorithm)
- Selection (relational algebra)
- Selection-based search, a search engine system in which the user invokes a search query using only the mouse
- Selection algorithm, an algorithm that finds the kth smallest number in a list
Other uses
- Preselection (or selection) of candidates in British elections
- Selection (Australian history), an area of crown land acquired under legislation
- Selected (album), the compilation album by Recoil
- Selection (album), by 54•40
- Selection (Nazi concentration camps)
- The Selection, a novel by Kiera Cass
- A store brand used by Metro Inc.
See also
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