Selector

/sɪˈlɛktə(ɹ)/ · noun

Meaning

Someone or something which selects or chooses..

Definitions by Sense

1. Someone or something which selects or chooses.
2. (cricket) An administrator responsible for selecting which players will play for a side.
3. (computing) A matching expression in a stylesheet determining which elements in the markup are affected by a style.
4. (computing) A pointer to a structure describing a segment of memory.
5. (Internet, historical) A text string transmitted to a Gopher server, identifying the resource to be retrieved.
6. (music) A disc jockey.
7. (Australia, historical) A person who is entitled to choose a tract of Crown land to purchase.

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.

That's my sector, homosexual dissector / Come again, rewind selector

This sonic body has to decide which music track to play at any particular moment. But when the selector is alone in front of the crowd, how do they know which track to play next?

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