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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.

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  • noun A measure of how selective something is; discrimination.
  • noun The ability of a radio receiver to separate a desired signal frequency from others.

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  • noun the property of being selective

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Examples

  • Tim - yeah, selectivity is definitely good to practice

    How to Read a Book Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • In summary, selectivity is key to managing risk right now.

    Safe Investing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • In this scramble selectivity is "the coin of the realm," as one admissions officer put it to The Atlantic last year.

    Does Meritocracy Work? 2005

  • In this scramble selectivity is "the coin of the realm," as one admissions officer put it to The Atlantic last year.

    Does Meritocracy Work? 2005

  • 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.

    The Selectivity Illusion 2003

  • 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.

    The Selectivity Illusion 2003

  • 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.

    Press Release: The 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1987

  • | 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 2009

  • You call my selectivity scurrilous from Collins: scurrilous [ˈskʌrɪləs] adj

    Word Magazine - Comments Harold Holt 2010

  • 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.

    Caribbean Net News Daily Headlines 2010

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