<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an act or instance of selecting or the state of being selected; choice.</li><li>Antonyms: rejection</li><li>a thing or a number of things selected.</li><li>Synonyms: pick, gathering, collection</li><li>an aggregate of things displayed for choice, purchase, use, etc.; a group from which a choice may be made: The store had a wide selection of bracelets.</li><li>Biology: any natural or artificial process that results in differential reproduction among the members of a population so that the inheritable traits of only certain individuals are passed on, or are passed on in greater proportion, to succeeding generations.</li><li>Compare natural selection, sexual selection, kin selection, artificial selection.</li><li>Linguistics: the choice of one form instead of another in a position where either can occur, as of ask instead of tell or with in the phrase ask me.</li><li>the choice of one semantic or syntactic class of words in a construction, to the exclusion of others that do not occur there, as the choice of an animate object for the verb surprise.</li></ul>