Election vs. Selection

Electionnoun

A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.

Electionnoun

The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.

Electionnoun

An option that is selected.

Electionnoun

(archaic) Any conscious choice.

Electionnoun

(theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.

Electionnoun

(obsolete) Those who are elected.

Electionnoun

The act of choosing; choice; selection.

Electionnoun

The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor.

Electionnoun

Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.

Electionnoun

Discriminating choice; discernment.

Electionnoun

Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; - one of the "five points" of Calvinism.

Electionnoun

The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.

Electionnoun

Those who are elected.

Electionnoun

a vote to select the winner of a position or political office;

Electionnoun

the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice;

Electionnoun

the status or fact of being elected;

Electionnoun

the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists)

Election

An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century.

Selectionnoun

The process or act of selecting.

Selectionnoun

Something selected.

Selectionnoun

A variety of items taken from a larger collection.

Selectionnoun

A musical piece.

Selectionnoun

(databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.

Selectionnoun

(linguistics) The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. Wp

Selectionnoun

(programming) A list of items on which user operations will take place. Wp

Selectionnoun

(algebra) A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.

Selectionnoun

(historical) The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. Wp

Selectionnoun

(biology) The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. Wp

Selectionnoun

(biology) natural selection

Selectionnoun

The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.

Selectionnoun

That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books.

Selectionnoun

the act of choosing or selecting;

Selectionnoun

an assortment of things from which a choice can be made;

Selectionnoun

the person or thing chosen or selected;

Selectionnoun

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

Selectionnoun

a passage selected from a larger work;