Noun

(en noun)

A person who is running in an election or who is applying to a position for a job.

A participant in an examination.

Something or somebody maybe suitable for or in danger of something or somebody.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=Kevin Heng

, title= Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily? , volume=101, issue=3, page=184, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.}}

Synonym for candidate gene.

Noun

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(politics) The process by which a candidate for public office is selected, usually by a political party

* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 17, author=Malcolm Farr and AAP, title=Former Opposition leader Brendan Nelson to quit politics, work=Herald Sun citation

, passage=The preselection in Mr Costello's Victorian seat of Higgins will start in April, when he will have to reveal whether he will stand for another term. }}

(chiefly, science) Selection in advance

* {{quote-journal, 2001, date=March 9, Christian M. T. Spahn et al., Hepatitis C Virus IRES RNA-Induced Changes in the Conformation of the 40S Ribosomal Subunit, Science citation

, passage=After automated particle preselection , manual verification, and selection by cross-correlation, 18,801 particles were chosen for the vacant 40S ''subunit, 20,939 particles for the IRES-40''S ''complex, and 13,613 particles for the IRES dII-40''S complex. }}