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brit:
1. A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.
1. The process or act of selecting.
The large number of good candidates made selection difficult.
2. Something selected.
My final selection was a 1934 Chateau Lafitte.
3. A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
I've brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine.
4. A musical piece.
For my next selection, I'll play Happy Birthday in F-sharp minor.
5. A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
6. The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. Wp
7. A list of items on which user operations will take place. Wp
8. A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
9. The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. Wp
10. The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. Wp