selective

selective (sɪˈlɛktɪv)

—*adj*
1.	of or characterized by selection
2.	tending to choose carefully or characterized by careful choice
3.	electronics occurring at, operating at, or capable of separating out a particular frequency or band of frequencies

se'lectively

—*adv*

se'lectiveness

—n

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Example sentences

It may be objected that the outcome could have reflected selective breeding

rather than family stability.

These drugs are generally referred to as either nonselective or selective

alpha-blockers.

The private nonprofit university is little known nationally, not selective, and

depends on tuition.

In this situation, it seems that the guys are usually less selective than the

gals.

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"Human visual perception is a far more complex and selective process than that by which a film records. Nevertheless the camera lens and the eye both register images—because of their sensitivity to light—at great speed and in the face of an immediate event. What the camera does, however, and what the eye in itself can never do is to fix the appearance of that event. It removes its appearance from the flow of appearances and it preserves it, not perhaps forever but for as long as the film exists. The essential character of this preservation is not dependent upon the image being static; unedited film rushes preserve in essentially the same way. The camera saves a set of appearances from the otherwise inevitable supercession of further appearances. It holds them unchanging. And before the invention of the camera nothing could do this, except, in the mind's eye, the faculty of memory."

-John Berger