#1 selection n. [choice, option, pick] the act of choosing or selecting; "your choice of colors was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick". wn
#2 selection n. an assortment of things from which a choice can be made; "the store carried a large selection of shoes". wn
#3 selection n. [choice, pick] the person or thing chosen or selected; "he was my pick for mayor". wn
#4 selection n. [survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection] a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment. wn
#5 selection n. [excerpt, excerption, extract] a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings". wn
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