Selection meaning : A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes. The process or act of selecting. Something selected. A variety of items taken from a larger collection. A musical piece. A set of data obtained from a database using a query. The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. Wp A list of items on which user operations will take place. Wp A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation. The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. Wp The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. Wp