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Webster 1913 Edition
Selector
Se-lect′or
,Noun.
[L.]
One who selects.
Webster 1828 Edition
Selector
SELECT'OR
,Noun.
Definition 2024
selector
selector
English
Noun
selector (plural selectors)
- Someone or something which selects or chooses different options.
- 1949, Billboard (volume 61, number 34, page 97)
- There is one selection for hot chocolate. All selectors are the push button type.
- (cricket) An administrator responsible for selecting which players will play for a side.
- (Internet) A matching expression in a stylesheet determining which elements in the markup are affected by a style.
- (Internet) A text string transmitted to a Gopher server, identifying the resource to be retrieved.
- (computing) A pointer to a structure describing a segment of memory.
- 1990, Byte (volume 15, issues 11-13, page 256)
- Phar Lap executables […] provide a protected-mode selector, 34h, that maps to the first megabyte of physical memory.
- 1995, Lary L. Myers, Keith Weiskamp, Amazing 3-D games adventure set (page 235)
- You will only have to be concerned with DPMI, selectors, and such, if you use Borland C++ in DOS.
- 1990, Byte (volume 15, issues 11-13, page 256)
- 1949, Billboard (volume 61, number 34, page 97)