choice vs selection

choice

noun
  • An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something. 

  • One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision. 

  • Anything that can be chosen. 

  • The power to choose. 

  • Do I have a choice of what color to paint it? 

  • The best or most preferable part. 

adj
  • Especially good or preferred. 

intj
  • Cool; excellent. 

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. 

How often have the words choice and selection occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )