English Dictionary
◊ SELECTION
selection
n 1: the act of choosing or selecting; "your choice of colors was
unfortunate"; "you can take your pick" [syn: {choice}, {pick}]
2: an assortment of things from which a choice can be made;
"the store carried a large selection of shoes"
3: the person or thing chosen or selected; "he was my pick for
mayor" [syn: {choice}, {pick}]
4: a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms
best adapted to the environment [syn: {survival}, {survival
of the fittest}, {natural selection}]
5: a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented exerpts
from William James' philosophical writings" [syn: {excerpt},
{extract}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ DID YOU MEAN ELECTRON?
electron
A sub-atomic particle with a negative quantised
{charge}. A flow of electrical {current} consists of the
unidirectional (on average) movement of many electrons. The
more mobile electrons are in a given material, the greater it
electrical conductance (or equivalently, the lower its
resistance).
(1995-10-06)