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1. The act of choosing or selecting
   - choice, option, pick
    
2. An assortment of things from which a choice can be made
   "the store carried a large selection of shoes"
    
3. The person or thing chosen or selected
   - choice, pick
    
4. A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
   - survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection
    
5. A passage selected from a larger work
   - excerpt, excerption, extract

Derived forms: selections

See also: select

Type of: action, activity, assortment, deciding, decision making, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, natural action, natural process, passage, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety

Encyclopedia: Selection