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. 
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151. However, we saw that problems of adverse selection and moral hazard would inhibit the organization of private insurance markets.
152. While real estate seems still to be undervalued compared to stocks and bonds, this is a year for careful selection.
153. Thus, the unit of analysis for assessing performance contribution in executive selection is capabilities.
154. Registration and selection of cattle is on a national basis and there is also a fully automated cattle information system.
155. The selection seems to have taken into account the moves within London University to amalgamate some colleges and form five science centres.
156. An appropriate selection of firms will be made whose knowledge base is currently threatened by new technology or a novel design configuration.
157. In order to start at the logical beginning I went with the default selection, Title.
158. The smart cocktail bar is an ideal meeting place with a pleasant atmosphere and the restaurant serves a good selection of food. Sentencedict.com
159. Just four Republicans cast ballots for some one other than Gingrich, six short of the number needed to block his selection.
160. Students may, by careful selection, build a course of informed specialization or one of reflective overview.
161. Wallace had no interest in animal breeding and did not model his proposed mechanism on the process of artificial selection.
162. Buchanan, however, said she was pleased by the selection of abortion opponent Rep.
163. They joined the six-day residential course after a careful selection process.
164. We argue that selection for dwarfism results from reduced intrasexual competition through high differential adult mortality between the sexes.
165. An extensive selection of whiskies and draught beers, real ale.
166. They have a formal code of recruitment and selection and a personnel specification for the task of advice worker.
167. June Huntington's allegation that these practitioners are businesslike rather than professional questions the selection procedure of the committee.
168. Such selection has been continued throughout history, and is continuing today in plant and animal breeding programmes.
169. Making sure of a balanced diet means, essentially, eating a selection of different foods, with no one type predominating.
170. An excellent article on selection bias using real examples from the comparative literature.
171. I am not convinced that the principle of natural selection alone makes the emergence of rational beings probable.
172. We have an example of selection bias as described in Section 15.2.7.
173. The most blatant form of selection occurs when a study includes only those cases that support the theory.
174. This phenomenon also arises in the field of insurance where it is known as adverse selection.
175. The idea of genetic algorithms is to mimic natural Darwinian selection of genetic codes.
176. Selection of cost function is discussed.
177. China aid Burma with a built mini foundry shop of which both foundry technology and equipment selection have been described in details.
178. Some divergence may be attributable solely to natural selection of landrace traits, other differences may be attributable to selective breeding .
179. The habitat suitability selection models were established for nesting of Grey heron(Ardea cinerea)in Zhalong National Nature Reserve.
180. The instance of the major UI element representing "UI32 Seminar Selection Screen" is an anonymous object with the name ":SeminarSelector" and the stereotype .
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.