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selectiveness

/si-lek-tiv/US // sɪˈlɛk tɪv //UK // (sɪˈlɛktɪv) //

选择性,选拔性,选择权,挑选性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
    • : characterized by selection, especially fastidious selection.
    • : of or relating to selection.
    • : Electricity, Radio. having good selectivity.

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Examples

  • Along with his power surge, and perhaps contributing to it, Tatís has also become more selective about the pitches he swings at.

  • Van Eenennaam credits this boost in productivity to conventional selective breeding.

  • Interestingly, “fusion’s effect on selective censoring occurred regardless of whether the incongruent comments used offensive language.”

  • Since then, SDPD has said it would be selective about when it tapped into the cameras.

  • That’s due largely to selective breeding and other technologies.

  • Liberals are outraged over the Steven Scalise scandal—but the left has selective amnesia.

  • Based on our conversation, he decided to do more research and apply to at least one small selective college.

  • Justice should not be selective to fit a political narrative when the facts and evidence prove otherwise.

  • But a drug like lamotrigine is not selective, and so it also affects the behavior of the rest of the temporal lobe.

  • Whether or not guayusa is a product of selective breeding, the Kichwa have learned to harness its power.

  • But death—the taking of life—was a selective process, intentionally executed, the result a foreseen conclusion.

  • I'm opposed to dictators, myself; that—and the Selective Service law, of course—was why I was a soldier.

  • And this selective desire is none other than the universal Law of Attraction.

  • All I wish to say here is that the necessity of some selective process is inherent in the conditions of social life.

  • Seines are species-selective, due partly to the preference of certain fishes for special habitat niches.