Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In electricity, the property of a circuit by virtue of which it responds to electric oscillations of a given frequency.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
measure of howselective something is;discrimination . - noun The
ability of a radio receiver toseparate a desiredsignal frequency from others.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of being selective
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Tim - yeah, selectivity is definitely good to practice
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In summary, selectivity is key to managing risk right now.
Safe Investing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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In this scramble selectivity is "the coin of the realm," as one admissions officer put it to The Atlantic last year.
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In this scramble selectivity is "the coin of the realm," as one admissions officer put it to The Atlantic last year.
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Perhaps the most fundamental myth of selectivity is that those admitted to a school somehow represent the apex of the applicant group — that they are the best of the best.
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Perhaps the most fundamental myth of selectivity is that those admitted to a school somehow represent the apex of the applicant group — that they are the best of the best.
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Simply expressed, the selectivity is determined by the fact that different crown ehters include "holes" of different sizes, into which different spherical metal ions fit.
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| Reply | Permalink no, DTM - citing 2 votes over and over (did Hello_world lose respect for Dick Durbin too?) while not looking at Clinton's resume, is called selectivity to prove one's gut.
Hillary: Bill Will Have No Formal Foreign Policy Role In My White House
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You call my selectivity scurrilous from Collins: scurrilous [ˈskʌrɪləs] adj
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The fact that the PPP regime offered rewards when murder victims were Indians, and never once did so when the victim was African, establishes the notion of selectivity and preferences where victims are concerned.
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