Meaning & use
selection
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the act or process of choosing someone or something from a group of alternatives.
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The committee's selection of a new director took several months.
The store offers a wide selection of imported cheeses.
A note on using this word
In biology, 'natural selection' is the process by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and reproduce more successfully.
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2. noun
in biology, the process, especially natural selection, by which organisms with favorable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce.
Darwin proposed natural selection as the driving force of evolution.
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