ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Selector

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /sɪˈlɛktə(ɹ)/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Selector is a noun meaning Someone or something which selects or chooses.

Meaning

Someone or something which selects or chooses.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

That's my sector, homosexual dissector / Come again, rewind selector
There is one selection for hot chocolate. All selectors are the push button type.
You will only have to be concerned with DPMI, selectors, and such, if you use Borland C++ in DOS.
Phar Lap executables […] provide a protected-mode selector, 34h, that maps to the first megabyte of physical memory.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include selection, chooser, choosing, choice, built-in, change.

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