What does selection mean?
Selection means The process or act of selecting..
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/səˈlɛkʃən/ · noun
The process or act of selecting..
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.
Use selection when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Selection means The process or act of selecting..
Common synonyms include choice, option, number, piece.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The large number of good candidates made selection difficult.
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