representative vs selector

representative

noun
  • One who speaks for or acts on behalf of another in a particular (especially official) capacity. 

  • Someone who represents others as a member of a legislative or governing body. 

  • An heir. 

  • A member of a particular class. 

  • Something representing or standing for another; a symbol, an embodiment. 

  • A substitute or analogue. 

  • A company agent who visits potential purchasers; a salesman. 

  • Something (especially a living organism) regarded as typical of its class; a type. 

  • Specifically, a member of the United States House of Representatives. 

adj
  • Representing, showing a likeness. 

  • Typical; having the same properties or interest as a larger group. 

selector

noun
  • Someone or something which selects or chooses. 

  • An administrator responsible for selecting which players will play for a side. 

  • A matching expression in a stylesheet determining which elements in the markup are affected by a style. 

  • A text string transmitted to a Gopher server, identifying the resource to be retrieved. 

  • A person who is entitled to choose a tract of Crown land to purchase. 

  • A pointer to a structure describing a segment of memory. 

  • A disc jockey. 

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