1. (

• choice ,
• selection ,
• option ,
• pick

) the act of choosing or selecting; "your choice of colors was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick" ;

2. (

• selection

) an assortment of things from which a choice can be made; "the store carried a large selection of shoes" ;

3. (

• choice ,
• pick ,
• selection

) the person or thing chosen or selected; "he was my pick for mayor" ;

4. (

• survival ,
• survival_of_the_fittest ,
• natural_selection ,
• selection

) a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment ;

5. (

• excerpt ,
• excerption ,
• extract ,
• selection

) a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings" ;