Fromselect +-or.
selector (pluralselectors)
- Someone or something whichselects orchooses.
1949,Billboard, volume61, number34, page97:There is one selection for hot chocolate. Allselectors are the push button type.
- (cricket) Anadministrator responsible for selecting whichplayers willplay for aside.
- (computing) Amatchingexpression in astylesheet determining whichelements in themarkup are affected by astyle.
2007, Craig Cook, David Schultz,Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML, Apress,→ISBN, page28:The IDselector targets just one element per page, making it much more specific than a classselector that might target many.
2009, Dino Esposito,Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX, Microsoft Press,→ISBN, page140:Theselector indicates the query expression to run over the DOM; the context indicates the portion of the DOM from which to run the query.
- (computing) Apointer to astructure describing asegment ofmemory.
1990,Byte, volume15, numbers11-13, page256:Phar Lap executables[…] provide a protected-modeselector, 34h, that maps to the first megabyte of physical memory.
1995, Lary L. Myers, Keith Weiskamp,Amazing 3-D games adventure set, page235:You will only have to be concerned with DPMI,selectors, and such, if you use Borland C++ in DOS.
- (Internet, historical) Atextstring transmitted to aGopherserver, identifying theresource to be retrieved.
- Coordinate term:URL
- 1996, Kenneth H. Rosen,UNIX System V, Release 4: An Introduction, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, page 438:
- Gopherselector strings are more liberal in makeup than URLs and may contain any characters other than a tab, return, or linefeed.
- (music) Adisc jockey.
2009, “Medicine Ball”, inRelapse, performed by Eminem:That's my sector, homosexual dissector / Come again, rewindselector
2011, Julian Henriques,Sonic Bodies, A&C Black,→ISBN, page125:This sonic body has to decide which music track to play at any particular moment. But when theselector is alone in front of the crowd, how do they know which track to play next?
- (Australia, historical) A person who is entitled to choose a tract of Crown land to purchase.
1887, Harriet W. Daly,Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page78:Eachselector in turn chose the particular allotment he wanted for his client, and so on till this important work was over.
someone or something which selects or chooses
text string identifying a Gopher resource to be retrieved
Borrowed fromFrenchsélecteur.
selector n (pluralselectoare)
- selector
- IPA(key): /seleɡˈtoɾ/[se.leɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
- Rhymes:-oɾ
- Syllabification:se‧lec‧tor
selector (feminineselectora,masculine pluralselectores,feminine pluralselectoras)
- selecting
selector m (pluralselectores)
- selector
