Meaning

• A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.

Meaning

• The process or act of selecting.

  "The large number of good candidates made selection difficult."

• Something selected.

  "My final selection was a 1934 Chateau Lafitte."

• A variety of items taken from a larger collection.

  "I've brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine."

• A musical piece.

  "For my next selection, I'll play Happy Birthday in F-sharp minor."

• A set of data obtained from a database using a query.

• The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. Wp

• A list of items on which user operations will take place. Wp

• A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.

• The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. Wp

• The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. Wp