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preselection en · NOUN

Etymology

From pre- + selection.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The process by which a candidate for public office is selected, usually by a political party
   • The preselection in Mr Costello's Victorian seat of Higgins will start in April, when he will have to reveal whether he will stand for another term. 2009 February 17, Malcolm Farr and AAP, “Former Opposition leader Brendan Nelson to quit politics”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2009:
2. (countable, uncountable) Selection in advance
   • Suddenly, the doctor and the geneticist have have become active partners in the creation of human life through artificial insemination, sex preselection, test-tube babies, host mothers, recombinant DNA technology, […] 2000, David Golinkin, “Genetic Engineering”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 3, page 67:
   • After automated particle preselection, manual verification, and selection by cross-correlation, 18,801 particles were chosen for the vacant 40S subunit, 20,939 particles for the IRES-40S complex, and 13,613 particles for the IRES dII-40S complex. 2001 March 9, Christian M. T. Spahn et al., “Hepatitis C Virus IRES RNA-Induced Changes in the Conformation of the 40S Ribosomal Subunit”, in Science, volume 291, number 5510, →DOI, pages 1959–1962:
3. (countable, qualifier:evolutionary theory, uncountable) The preference for a mate found attractive by other members of one's sex.
4. (countable, uncountable) The process of a jury selecting entries to be shown in a competition when there are too many entries for the audience or schedule. The term preselection is often used with the opposite meaning in demoscene context, i.e. selecting entries not to be shown.
   • In compos which are potentially crammed like the music compos, preselection is a necessary evil. [...] 15-16 songs [...] are thus chosen to be played to the audience. 2009, Evoke demoparty, Preselection:
   • Every entry will be released [...], unless it was preselected/disqualified, or the competition was canceled. 2012, Demodays demoparty, General Rules (All Compos):

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Relateds

preselect

Translations (4)

la praesēlēctiō (beforehand selection) · fr présélection (beforehand selection) · el προεπιλογή (beforehand selection) · cmn 前置選擇 /前置选择 (beforehand selection)