adoption vs selection

adoption

noun
  • The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance 

  • The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if he or she were one's own child. 

  • An act of divine grace by which the redeemed in Christ are admitted to the privileges of the sons of God. 

  • Transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system. 

  • Ten consecutive wins against an opponent. 

  • The act of adopting. 

  • Admission to an institution, for example a hospital, clinic, mental asylum. 

selection

noun
  • The process or act of selecting. 

  • A variety of items taken from a larger collection. 

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

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

  • The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. ᵂᵖ 

  • A set of data obtained from a database using a query. 

  • A musical piece. 

  • Something selected. 

  • A list of items on which user operations will take place. ᵂᵖ 

  • A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation. 

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