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Selection

noun

The act of choosing or selecting. Synonyms: choice, option, pick. "You can take your pick"

An assortment of things from which a choice can be made.

The person or thing chosen or selected. Synonyms: choice, pick.

A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment. Synonyms: natural selection, survival, survival of the fittest.

A passage selected from a larger work. Synonyms: excerpt, excerption, extract.

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"Selection" Quotes from Famous Books

... scientific production. We all feel this. It makes us nervous to see the shelves of new books, many of which we feel as if we ought to read, and some among them to study. We must adopt some principle of selection among the books outside of any particular branch which we may have selected for study. I have often been asked what books I would recommend for a course of reading. I have always answered that I had a great deal rather take advice than give it. Fortunately, a number of ...

— Over the Teacups • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... contains a selection from the abbreviations that occur in the writings and inscriptions ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... of the book is what might be expected from the character of the author and the processes of his thinking. The mental state dictates the form of the sentence and the selection of the words. Thought and expression, so to speak, breed in and in. There is a certain roughness in the strength of the man, which is ever asserting itself through his cultured vigor; and in the diction, rustic plainness of speech alternates with the nomenclature of metaphysics, ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 • Various

... editor. But matters came to a crisis in 1794, nine years after the grand flourish of the first announcement at Berlin. Dr Zach sent to Oxford for publication his abstract of certain of the scientific papers, and the Earl of Egremont intrusted to the University Dr Zach's selection of the original papers. Zach's abstracts were merely sufficient to identify himself with the works of Hariot, but he had performed no real editorial labours, and had not 'pen'd the doctrine ' contained in them. Here were years of ...

— Thomas Hariot • Henry Stevens

... This book has been closely imitated by Virgil in his fifth book, but it is almost useless to attempt a selection ...

— The Iliad of Homer • Homer

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