selector
/sɪˈlɛktə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.17 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone or something which selects or chooses.
noun
An administrator responsible for selecting which players will play for a side.
noun
A matching expression in a stylesheet determining which elements in the markup are affected by a style.
noun
A pointer to a structure describing a segment of memory.
noun
A text string transmitted to a Gopher server, identifying the resource to be retrieved.
noun
A disc jockey.
Example Sentences
- "There is one selection for hot chocolate. All selectors are the push button type."
- "The ID selector targets just one element per page, making it much more specific than a class selector that might target many."
- "The selector indicates the query expression to run over the DOM; the context indicates the portion of the DOM from which to run the query."
- "Phar Lap executables […] provide a protected-mode selector, 34h, that maps to the first megabyte of physical memory."
- "You will only have to be concerned with DPMI, selectors, and such, if you use Borland C++ in DOS."
- "Gopher selector strings are more liberal in makeup than URLs and may contain any characters other than a tab, return, or linefeed."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *s(w)éder. Latin sē- Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *léǵeti Proto-Italic *legō Latin legō Latin sēlegō Latin sēlēctuslbor. English select English -or English selector From select + -or.