Selection (disambiguation)
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Selection
is the consistent differential survival and reproduction among genotypes.
Selection may also refer to:
In computer science:
Other uses:
Selection
In the context of evolution, certain traits or alleles of genes segregating within a population may be subject to selection. Under selection, individuals with advantageous or "adaptive" traits tend to be more successful than their peers reproductively—meaning they contribute more offspring to the...
is the consistent differential survival and reproduction among genotypes.
Selection may also refer to:
In computer science:
- Selection (user interface)Selection (user interface)In computing and user interface engineering, a selection is a list of items on which user operations will take place. The user typically adds items to the list manually, although the computer may create a selection automatically. A precision pointing device or by hand on a touchscreen device is...
- Selection (genetic algorithm)Selection (genetic algorithm)Selection is the stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding .A generic selection procedure may be implemented as follows:...
- Selection (relational algebra)
- Selection-based searchSelection-based searchA selection-based search system is a search engine system in which the user invokes a search query using only the mouse. A selection-based search system allows the user to search the internet for more information about any keyword or phrase contained within a document or webpage in any software...
, a search engine system in which the user invokes a search query using only the mouse - Selection algorithmSelection algorithmIn computer science, a selection algorithm is an algorithm for finding the kth smallest number in a list . This includes the cases of finding the minimum, maximum, and median elements. There are O, worst-case linear time, selection algorithms...
, an algorithm that finds the kth smallest number in a list
Other uses:
- Selected (album)Selected (album)Selected is the first compilation album released by the British musical project Recoil, released on April 19, 2010. The album features an eclectic mixture of vocalists including: Diamanda Galás, Joe Richardson, Douglas McCarthy, Samantha Coerbell, Siobhan Lynch, Toni Halliday, Nicole Blackman,...
, the compilation album by Recoil - Selection (Australian history)Selection (Australian history)Selection referred to "free selection before survey" of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. These acts were similar to the United States Homestead Act and were intended to encourage closer settlement, based on intensive agriculture, such as...
, an area of crown land acquired under legislation - Selection (album)Selection (album)Selection is a 1982 EP by Canadian band 54•40. It was the band's first release, appearing on the independent label Mo-Da-Mu.Although now out of print, the album and its 1984 follow up Set the Fire were re-released in 1997 on the compilation album, Sound of Truth: The Independent Collection.-Track...
, by 54•40 - Selection in schoolsSelective schoolA selective school is a school that admits students on the basis of some sort of selection criteria, usually academic. The term may have different connotations in different systems....
, the admission of students on the basis of selective critera - Selection effect, a distortion of data arising from the way that the data are collected
- Selektion, selection of prisoners for execution at a Nazi concentration camp