selectivity

selective | American Dictionary

selective
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/səˈlek·tɪv/
careful in choosing:
The school is very selective and accepts only those students who are extremely motivated.

selectively

adverbus/səˈlek·tɪv·li/
Purebred dogs have been selectively bred for thousands of years in some cases.

selective | Business English

selective
adjective
uk /sɪˈlektɪv/us
intentionally choosing certain things or people, and not others:
be selective about sthWe need to be more selective about the people we hire.
be selective in sth/doing sthBanks have become more selective in granting new loans.
affecting or relating to some things or people, and not others:
Higher costs will be offset by higher sales volumes and selective price increases.
We aim to provide selective access to suppliers and customers through extranets.
a selective approach
involving the choice of the most suitable or best:
We want to open more branches, make selective acquisitions, and extend our product range.
Investments will be selective and disciplined.

selectively

adverb
The company has selectively cut back production of denim.

selectivity

noun[ U ]
The benefit to investors of venture capitalists derives from extreme selectivity in their choice of investments.

Examples of selective

selective
In four patients, it was placed through the brachiocephalic artery permitting selective perfusion of the brain during repair of the aortic arch.
Ordinary forgetting, by contrast, is neither selective nor intelligent.
Second, the high rate of follow-up participation reduces the risk of bias due to selective attrition.
But the argument from selective refutation can be misleading when it causes us to fail to notice that the surviving hypothesis has its own defects.
However, the mechanism underlying the selective destruction of paternally derived mitochondria is unclear.
The inherent connection between a functional turnover and selective replication is postulated but not argued for in the course of the article.
A genetic constraint should be understood as a selective tradeoff between the new mutation and the existing genome.
Selective recall from the set of available autobiographical memories may also be seen as a type of reconstruction of a person's history.
Early versus delayed selective surfactant treatment for neonatal respiratory distress syndrome.
However, selective effects associated with inversions were soon discovered.
The selective activation considers the measurability of ultrasonic signals at the position of a mobile robot.
As a result, although he was keen to reflect the sense of local culture in his school, he was somewhat selective.
Selective attention to stimulus location modulates the steady-state visual evoked potential.
In the majority of these studies, samples were small, selective or included non-clinical subjects.
Mesial temporal neurons in the macaque monkey with responses selective for aspects of social stimuli.
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