selection

noun12

1. •
   The process or act of selecting.

   • The large number of good candidates made selection difficult.
2. •
   Something selected.

   • My final selection was a 1934 Chateau Lafite.
3. •
   A variety of items taken from a larger collection.

   • I've brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine.
4. •
   A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
5. •
   A list of items on which user operations will take place.
6. •
   (Australia, historical) A plot of land, or farm, thus selected.
7. •
   The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding.
8. •
   (historical) The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s.

   • 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[.] — 1899
9. •
   Ellipsis of natural selection.
10. •
    A musical piece.

    • For my next selection, I'll play Happy Birthday in F-sharp minor.
11. •
    A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
12. •
    The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments.