Meaning

7 senses
  1. Someone or something which selects or chooses.

    a person who chooses or selects out

  2. An administrator responsible for selecting which players will play for a side.

  3. A matching expression in a stylesheet determining which elements in the markup are affected by a style.

  4. A pointer to a structure describing a segment of memory.

  5. (Internet, historical)A text string transmitted to a Gopher server, identifying the resource to be retrieved.

  6. A disc jockey.

  7. (Australia, historical)A person who is entitled to choose a tract of Crown land to purchase.

Translations

1 languages

Forms

plural: selectors
Singularselector
Pluralselectors

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a switch that is used to select among alternatives:selector switch
  • a person who chooses or selects out:pickerchooser

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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