selection
/səˈlɛkʃən/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.62 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The large number of good candidates made selection difficult."
- "My final selection was a 1934 Chateau Lafite."
- "I've brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine."
- "For my next selection, I'll play Happy Birthday in F-sharp minor."
- "Our selection adjoined a sheep-run on the Darling Downs, and boasted […] a forest of box-trees, a stock-yard, and six acres under barley[.]"
- "Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with another and with their physical conditions of life, which may be effected in the long course of time by nature’s power of selection."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin sēlēctiō (“the act of choosing out, selection”), from sēligō (“choose out, select”), from sē- (“apart”) + legō (“gather, select”). Equivalent to select + -ion.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
adverse selection
ambidirectional selection
apostatic selection
artificial selection
asexual selection
background selection
balancing selection
clonal selection