As nouns the difference between extraction and selection
is that extraction is an act of extracting or the condition of being extracted while selection is selection.
extraction
English
Noun
(
en noun)
An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
A person's origin or ancestry.
Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
* Milton
- They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
(military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
(dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.
Synonyms
* descent, lineage
selection
English
Noun
(
en noun)
The process or act of .
- The large number of good candidates made selection difficult.
Something selected.
- My final selection was a 1934 Chateau Lafitte.
A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
- I've brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine.
A musical piece.
- For my next selection , I'll play ''Happy Birthday'' in F-sharp minor.
Derived terms
* ambidirectional selection
* apostatic selection
* artificial selection
* asexual selection
* background selection
* balancing selection
* compatibility selection
* counterselection
* deme selection
* demic selection
* directional selection
* disruptive selection
* diversifying selection
* ecological selection
* environmental selection
* eugenic selection
* fecundity selection
* frequency-dependent selection
* gametic selection
* gene selection
* genetic selection
* genic selection
* group selection
* hierarchical selection
* higher-level selection
* individual selection
* inevitable selection
* interdeme selection
* interdemic selection
* intersexual selection
* interspecies selection
* intrademe selection
* intrademic selection
* intrasexual selection
* intraspecies selection
* kin selection
* lower-level selection
* multilevel selection (MLS)
* natural selection
* natural selectional
* natural selectionary
* negative selection
* organismal selection
* organismic selection
* panselection
* panselectionism
* panselectionist
* positive selection
* purified selection
* purifying selection
* selectional
* selectionary
* selectionism
* selectionist
* selection rule
* sexual selection
* simultaneous selection
* species selection
* stabilising selection, stabilizing selection
* strong selection
* supraorgamismal selection
* survival selection
* theory of natural selection
* unit of selection
* viability selection
* weak selection
Related terms
* elect
* election
* elective
* elite,
* elitism,
* elitist,
* panselective
* panselectivist
* select
* selectable
* selectability
* selectance
* selectee
* selective
* selectively
* selectiveness
* selectivity
* selectly
* selectman
* selectness
* selector
Synonyms
* choice
* (musical piece) number
* (something selected) option
* (musical piece) piece
* (variety from larger collection) subset
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