Selective Definition

sĭ-lĕktĭv
adjective
Of or characterized by selection.
Webster's New World
Having the power of selecting; tending to select.
Webster's New World
Tending to select carefully; fastidious; discriminating.
Webster's New World
Excluding oscillations on all frequencies except the one desired.
Webster's New World

(chiefly US, not comparable) Having the authority or capability to make a selection.

In the USA, military conscription is controlled by the Selective Service.
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Selective Sentence Examples

  • Such definitions, then, are to be accepted, if at all, as definitions of type, selective designations of leading but not strictly universal features.

  • There would be no selective reduction.

  • But it is forgotten that both the plant and the soil enjoy special powers of selective absorption, which remove and fix the better constituents of the water and leave the less valuable.

  • In city districts the modern practice is to restrict the number to four stations per line, and to equip the exchanges and stations for selective ringing.

  • But eventually they may in turn become, in changed conditions, of selective value.

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