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Look up selectivity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Selectivity may refer to: Choice, making a selection among options Discrimination, the ability...

Look up selective in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Selective may refer to: Selective school, a school that admits students on the basis of some sort...

Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular...

Tissue selectivity is a topic in distribution (pharmacology) and property of some drugs. It refers to when a drug occurs in disproportionate concentrations...

collectors, a selective surface or selective absorber is a means of increasing its operation temperature and/or efficiency. The selectivity is defined as...

Selective yellow is a colour for automotive lamps, particularly headlamps and other road-illumination lamps such as fog lamps. Under ECE regulations,...

A selective school is a school that admits students on the basis of some sort of selection criteria, usually academic. The term may have different connotations...

example)—that set them apart from a child with selective mutism alone. Some autistic people may be selectively mute due to anxiety in unfamiliar social situations...

whereby people are highly selective in what they eat and do not eat are known as picky eating or selective eating. Selective eating is common in younger...

Selective memory can mean any of the following: Selective omission, the tendency to taboo some elements of a collective memory Confirmation bias, the...

those said to be "selective". Chelation therapy is a form of medical treatment in which a chelating ligand is used to selectively remove a metal from...

to create nano-porous metals is the np-Au system, which is created by selectively leaching Ag out of an Au-Ag homogenous alloy. When an initially homogenous...

Selectivity is a measure of the performance of a radio receiver to respond only to the radio signal it is tuned to (such as a radio station) and reject...

Functional selectivity (or “agonist trafficking”, “biased agonism”, “biased signaling”, "ligand bias" and “differential engagement”) is the ligand-dependent...

Selective fire, or select fire, is the capability of a weapon to be adjusted to fire in semi-automatic, fully automatic, and/or burst mode. The modes...

crime and which charges to file. Therefore, the mere fact that a law is selectively enforced against one person and not against another, absent bias or pattern...

Selective reduction is the practice of reducing the number of fetuses in a multiple pregnancy, such as quadruplets, to a twin or singleton pregnancy....

Selective perception is the tendency not to notice and more quickly forget stimuli that cause emotional discomfort and contradict prior beliefs. For example...

In genetics, a selective sweep is the process through which a new beneficial mutation that increases its frequency and becomes fixed (i.e., reaches a...

Selective amnesia is a type of amnesia in which the sufferer loses only certain parts of their memory. Common elements that may be forgotten are relationships...