Usually means: Choose not to select something.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. deselect: Merriam-Webster
  2. deselect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deselect: Collins English Dictionary
  4. deselect: TheFreeDictionary.com
  5. deselect: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. deselect: Dictionary.com
  7. Deselect, deselect: Wordnik
  8. deselect: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. deselect: Wiktionary
  10. deselect: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deselect: Netlingo
  2. deselect: CCI Computer

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verb:  (transitive) To not select; to rule out of selection.
verb:  (transitive, British, politics) To reject (an incumbent) as a party's candidate for a forthcoming election.
verb:  (transitive, graphical user interface) To remove from an existing selection.

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