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