Synonym: choice, excerpt, excerption, extract, natural selection, option, pick, survival, survival of the fittest. Similar words: election, reflection, collection, select, selected, section, infection, objection. Meaning: [sɪ'lekʃn] 
n. 1. the act of choosing or selecting 2. an assortment of things from which a choice can be made 3. the person or thing chosen or selected 4. a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment 5. a passage selected from a larger work.
n. 1. the act of choosing or selecting 2. an assortment of things from which a choice can be made 3. the person or thing chosen or selected 4. a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment 5. a passage selected from a larger work. 
Random good picture Not show
91. Such intimacy requires careful selection of a detail that is representative of the whole.
92. This selection of elements also reveals the increase in atomic weight over atomic number.
93. The danger, Mr Peabody says, is that a process of adverse selection is under way.
94. More important is Huxley's own attitude to the theory of natural selection.
95. There is a large selection of animated cartoons produced for children.
96. What I have in mind is a small selection of visual material with a minimum of caption text.
97. In the meantime I enclose a selection of wooden bench designs.
98. The selection board interviewed him and rejected his application without further ado.
99. The five man selection team is completed by county board chairman Jack Wall and secretary Seamus Aldrdige.
100. A selection of some of the major studies is given in the bibliography at the end of this chapter.
101. Secondly,[Sentencedict.com] there is the problem of political bias in book and periodical selection in libraries.
102. The committee members are appointed by the Committee of Selection.
103. These were a dozen or so stoppered glass bottles containing a selection of Wakelate's most virulent and inventive poisons.
104. With careful selection you can recreate your own wildlife haven.
105. This principle of preservation I have called, for the sake of brevity, Natural Selection.
106. The quotations above illustrate this left-wing frankness, and show how far political allegiances in some cases determine selection policy.
107. Our model, in other words, is strictly a model of artificial selection, not natural selection.
108. Refreshed, I said hi to a few filmstars, briefly joining them at their tables with a selection of apposite one-liners.
109. Chapter 2 provides an exhaustive review of problems with selection bias.
110. There seems to have been no evolutionary selection for specific avoidance behaviour -- cowering giraffes are not a sensitive predictor of thunderstorms.
111. It is more than that, as artificial selection has made a splendid variety of sizes, shapes, colours and tastes.
112. It is therefore possible to give an account of moral altruism by appeal simply to the principle of natural selection.
113. To these issues must be added the allied questions of selection and appraisal.
114. There were no brothels in the colony you see before we came - but every town now has a fair selection.
115. This study will also take into account choices between alternative methods and the selection of topics and sites for investigation.
116. Selection of appropriate communication media, including the use of notice boards, paging devices and public address systems.
117. The selection of a particular planning frame commits the speaker to using certain function words and affixes and not others.
118. There is an obvious analogy between operant conditioning and evolution by natural selection.
119. The range cleverly combines a diversity of abstract design styles from classical to modern in a well balanced selection.
120. Cost: $ 1, 795 and $ 1, 995 depending on cabin selection.
More similar words: election, reflection, collection, select, selected, section, infection, objection, connection, inspection, projection, protection, telecommunications, introspection, in all directions, elect, electric, environmental protection, electronic, electrical, electricity, electronics, collective, electroplating, action, fiction, auction, reaction, function, sanction.