Selection is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SELECTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of selecting
• the action or fact of carefully choosing someone or something as being the best or most suitable
• a number of carefully chosen things
• a range of things from which a choice may be made
• a horse or horses tipped as worth bets in a race or meeting
• data highlighted on a computer screen for a particular operation
• a process in which environmental or genetic influences determine which types of organism thrive better than others, regarded as a factor in evolution
• the action of choosing and acquiring plots of land for small farming on terms favourable to the buyer
• a plot of land acquired by selection.
• The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.
• That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books.
• the act of choosing or selecting
• an assortment of things from which a choice can be made
• the person or thing chosen or selected
• a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
• a passage selected from a larger work
• selecting
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or process of selecting; the state of being selected

Words related to SELECTION

selecting12 selections12

Words that contain SELECTION

selections12 deselection14 reselection13 deselections15 preselection16 reselections14 selectionist14 preselections17 selectionists15

How to use SELECTION in a sentence

• We have seen the most malicious beauties of her own sex baffled in the attempt at a selection.
• It is true that he also must exercise a power of abstraction and selection, tie cannot without confusion present all the details.
• By being allowed the choice of selection, two hundred dollars are added to my salary.
• The credit of the selection and its successful management has been popularly awarded to Francis P.
• The selection must also favor trees which are best adapted to the local soil and climatic conditions and those which will add to the beauty of the place.
• The long job justifies the expenditure of money, effort and time by management and men, and is the ideal field for the application of scientific selection and functionalization.
• Of course there was nothing in Bethisy except a wide-eyed population, a selection of smells, and a vast congregation of chickens.
• To my mind, however, artificial selection is truly a part of the whole process of natural selection.
• In the selection of these instances preference is given to those problems which are not too technical for the general reader.
• It will be noticed that little selection has been exercised in the stones employed, and that an excess of mortar has been used to fill in the large interstices.
• The contents were scattered over the floor, evidently for purpose of selection.
• In other words, natural selection is at work again here, with alcohol as its agent.
• For this reason alone the non-sustentative form of selection might be expected to be the predominant kind.
• His selection was due to a general and well founded opinion that he possessed military qualities, courage and decision, and that he was inspired by a deep devotion to the Union.
• The provision just quoted imposed the further restriction of requiring the person nominated by selection to have previously been an officer of the Army of the Confederate States.
• Hence a selection must be made, and, of course, only those must be chosen which are in harmony with the supposition that Christianity is but a dormant germ.
• Every thing is made perfectly plain, and the subject treated in all its details, from the selection of the soil to preparing the products for market.
• At what point in the following selection is the interest greatest? During the Civil War, I lived in that portion of Tennessee which was alternately held by the conflicting armies.
• Notice in what respects it differs from the preceding selection.
• Both are explained in the selection, and the explanations are made clearer by contrasting the one with the other.
• Notice in the following selection what facts, specific instances, and circumstances are advanced in support of the proposition.
• Employment departments are now established with more or less complete control over the selection and assignment of men and women in the organization.
• The would-be critic has only to step into a Fifth Avenue ballroom and see what she is offered in his place to sympathize with and perhaps applaud her selection.
• The selection of his position was necessarily confided to the judgment of the general in command.
• Not all pupils were given this privilege, and the conditions of selection were not very definite beyond a sort of general confidence and promise relative to the pupil.
• Neither he nor Galton appears to have any adequate conception of what Natural Selection is, or how impossible it is to escape from it.
• This first volume contained a selection from the countless verses which the poet produced between his sixteenth and his nineteenth year.
• When the girl finally finished her selection, the woman begged permission to attend to the camels and getting the beasts on their feet led them together to be tethered.

Similar words containing SELEC without suffix tion

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