What is the meaning of Selection?

The process or act of selecting.

Something selected.

A variety of items taken from a larger collection.

A musical piece.

A set of data obtained from a database using a query.

The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments.

A list of items on which user operations will take place.

A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.

The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s.

  1. A plot of land, or farm, thus selected.

A plot of land, or farm, thus selected.

The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding.

Ellipsis of natural selection.

Source: wiktionary.org