Usually means: Choosing one option among many.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. selecting: Merriam-Webster
  2. selecting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. selecting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Selecting, selecting: Wordnik
  5. selecting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. selecting: Wiktionary
  7. selecting: Dictionary.com
  8. selecting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Selecting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Selecting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. selecting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. selecting: MyWord.info
  13. selecting: FreeDictionary.org
  14. selecting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. selecting: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. selecting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. selecting: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. selecting: Idioms

(Note: See select as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Select)

adjective:  Privileged, specially selected.
adjective:  Of high quality; top-notch.
verb:  To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
verb:  (databases) To obtain a set of data from a database using a query.
noun:  A button (of a joystick, joypad or similar device) that, when pressed, activates any of certain predefined functions that usually, but not always, involve selecting something out of a list of items.
▸ Also see select


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