Selection vs False - What's the difference?
selection | false |
The process or act of .
Something selected.
A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
A musical piece.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun selection
is selection.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.selection
English
Noun
(en noun)- The large number of good candidates made selection difficult.
- My final selection was a 1934 Chateau Lafitte.
- I've brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine.
- 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 selectionSynonyms
* choice * (musical piece) number * (something selected) option * (musical piece) piece * (variety from larger collection) subsetExternal links
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Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}