Selectivity may refer to:
Psychology and behaviour
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Choice, making a selection among options
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Discrimination
Discrimination is the act of making unjustified distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong. People may be discriminated on the basis of race, gender, age, relig ...
, the ability to recognize differences
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Socioemotional selectivity theory Socioemotional selectivity theory (SST; developed by Stanford psychologist Laura L. Carstensen) is a life-span theory of motivation. The theory maintains that as time horizons shrink, as they typically do with age, people become increasingly selecti ...
, in social psychology
Engineering
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Selectivity (radio) 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 other signals nearby in frequency, such as another broadcast on an adjacent channel.
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, a measure of the performance of a radio receiver to respond only to the radio signal it is tuned
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Selectivity (circuit breakers) Selectivity, also known as circuit breaker discrimination, is the coordination of overcurrent protection devices so that a fault in the installation is cleared by the protection device located immediately upstream of the fault. The purpose of sele ...
, the coordination of overcurrent protection devices in an electrical installation
Biology
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Binding selectivity
Binding selectivity is defined with respect to the binding of ligands to a substrate forming a complex. Binding selectivity describes how a ligand may bind more preferentially to one receptor than another. A selectivity coefficient is the equilib ...
, in pharmacology
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Functional selectivity
Functional selectivity (or “agonist trafficking”, “biased agonism”, “biased signaling”, "ligand bias" and “differential engagement”) is the ligand-dependent selectivity for certain signal transduction pathways relative to a referen ...
, in pharmacology
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Natural selection
Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype. It is a key mechanism of evolution, the change in the heritable traits characteristic of a population over generations. Charle ...
, in biology
Chemistry
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Reactivity–selectivity principle In chemistry the reactivity–selectivity principle or RSP states that a more reactive chemical compound or reactive intermediate is less selective in chemical reactions. In this context selectivity represents the ratio of reaction rates.
This prin ...
, in general chemistry
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Chemoselectivity
Chemoselectivity is the preferential outcome of a chemical reaction over a set of possible alternative reactions.
In another definition, chemoselectivity refers to the selective reactivity of one functional group in the presence of others; often ...
, a term used in organic chemistry to describe reactivity of one functional group in the presence of other groups
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Stereoselectivity, a term used in organic chemistry to describe the distribution of isomers in reaction products
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Regioselectivity, a term used in organic chemistry to describe reaction mechanisms and predict reaction products
Mathematics
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Sensitivity and specificity
''Sensitivity'' and ''specificity'' mathematically describe the accuracy of a test which reports the presence or absence of a condition. Individuals for which the condition is satisfied are considered "positive" and those for which it is not are ...
, in statistical theory
See also
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Select (disambiguation)
Select or SELECT may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Select'' (album), an album by Kim Wilde
* ''Select'' (magazine), a British music magazine
* ''MTV Select'', a television program
* ''Select Live'', New Zealand's C4 music program ...
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Selection (disambiguation)
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