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selection
Noun
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A person makes a selection when a person chooses a smaller number of things from a larger group of things.
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A selection of things is different things that have been chosen or that you can choose from.
The window of the store shows a selection of the things you can buy in the store.
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Selection is a process where the best adapted life forms survive and the others die out.
Charles Darwin was a scientist who wrote about natural selection.
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In Australia, a selection was an area of land which a farmer could choose to buy.
The first thing he had to do was clear the trees of his selection.
criterion
Noun
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A criterion is a principle that you use to judge something or decide about something.
The only criterion used for measuring success was school grades.