Selection

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Selection may refer to:

In computing:

• Selection (user interface)
  • X Window selection
• Selection (genetic algorithm)
• Selection (relational algebra)
• Selection-based search, a search engine system in which the user invokes a search query using only the mouse
• Selection algorithm, an algorithm that finds the kth smallest number in a list

Other uses:

• Selection of candidates in British elections
• Selection (biology), selection in evolution
• A store brand used by Metro Inc.
• Selected (album), the compilation album by Recoil
• Selection (Australian history), an area of crown land acquired under legislation
• Selection (album), by 54•40
• Selection in schools, the admission of students on the basis of selective criteria
• 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
• The Selection, a novel by Kiera Cass