deferment vs selection

deferment

noun
  • An act or instance of deferring or putting off. 

  • Officially sanctioned postponement of compulsory military service. 

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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