different between selector vs selection

English

Etymology

select +? -or

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?kt?(?)

Noun

selector (plural selectors)

1. Someone or something which selects or chooses.
   • 1949, Billboard (volume 61, number 34, page 97)

     There is one selection for hot chocolate. All selectors are the push button type.

2. (cricket) An administrator responsible for selecting which players will play for a side.
3. (computing) A matching expression in a stylesheet determining which elements in the markup are affected by a style.
   • 2007, Craig Cook, David Schultz, Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML, Apress (?ISBN), page 28:

     The ID selector targets just one element per page, making it much more specific than a class selector that might target many.

   • 2009, Dino Esposito, Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX, Microsoft Press (?ISBN), page 140:

     The selector indicates the query expression to run over the DOM; the context indicates the portion of the DOM from which to run the query.

4. (computing) A pointer to a structure describing a segment of memory.
   • 1990, Byte (volume 15, issues 11-13, page 256)

     Phar Lap executables […] provide a protected-mode selector, 34h, that maps to the first megabyte of physical memory.

   • 1995, Lary L. Myers, Keith Weiskamp, Amazing 3-D games adventure set (page 235)

     You will only have to be concerned with DPMI, selectors, and such, if you use Borland C++ in DOS.

5. (Internet, historical) A text string transmitted to a Gopher server, identifying the resource to be retrieved.

   Coordinate term: URL

   • 1996, Kenneth H. Rosen, UNIX System V, Release 4: An Introduction, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, page 438:

     Gopher selector strings are more liberal in makeup than URLs and may contain any characters other than a tab, return, or linefeed.

6. (music) A disc jockey.
   • 2011, Julian Henriques, Sonic Bodies, A&C Black (?ISBN), page 125:

     This sonic body has to decide which music track to play at any particular moment. But when the selector is alone in front of the crowd, how do they know which track to play next?

Derived terms

• selectorial
• uniselector

Translations

Anagrams

• Electors, corelets, corselet, electors, electros

Romanian

Etymology

From French sélecteur.

Noun

selector n (plural selectoare)

1. selector

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sele??to?/, [se.le???t?o?]

Adjective

selector (feminine selectora, masculine plural selectores, feminine plural selectoras)

1. selecting

Noun

selector m (plural selectores)

1. selector

English

Etymology

From Latin s?l?cti? (“the act of choosing out, selection”), from s?l?ctus, perfect passive participle of s?lig? (“choose out, select”), from s?- (“apart”) + leg? (“gather, select”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??l?k??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

selection (countable and uncountable, plural selections)

1. The process or act of selecting.

   The large number of good candidates made selection difficult.

2. Something selected.

   My final selection was a 1934 Chateau Lafitte.

3. A variety of items taken from a larger collection.

   I've brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine.

4. A musical piece.

   For my next selection, I'll play Happy Birthday in F-sharp minor.

5. (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
6. (linguistics) The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. ^Wp
7. (programming) A list of items on which user operations will take place. ^Wp
8. (algebra) A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
9. (historical) The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ^Wp
10. (biology) The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. ^Wp
11. (biology) Ellipsis of natural selection

Synonyms

• choice
• (musical piece): number
• (something selected): option
• (musical piece): piece
• (variety from larger collection): subset

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• selection in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• selection in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• elections, selenotic, telesonic