preselection

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See also: présélection

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Etymology

From pre- +‎ selection.

Noun

preselection (countable and uncountable, plural preselections)

  1. (politics) The process by which a candidate for public office is selected, usually by a political party
    • 2009 February 17, Malcolm Farr and AAP, “Former Opposition leader Brendan Nelson to quit politics”, in Herald Sun‎, archived from the original on 19 February 2009:
      The preselection in Mr Costello's Victorian seat of Higgins will start in April, when he will have to reveal whether he will stand for another term.
  2. (chiefly sciences) Selection in advance
    • 2001 March 9, Christian M. T. Spahn et al., “Hepatitis C Virus IRES RNA-Induced Changes in the Conformation of the 40S Ribosomal Subunit”, in Science‎, volume 291, number 5510, →DOI, pages 1959–1962:
      After automated particle preselection, manual verification, and selection by cross-correlation, 18,801 particles were chosen for the vacant 40S subunit, 20,939 particles for the IRES-40S complex, and 13,613 particles for the IRES dII-40S complex.
  3. (evolutionary theory) The preference for a mate found attractive by other members of one's sex.
  4. (demoscene) The process of a jury selecting entries to be shown in a competition when there are too many entries for the audience or schedule. The term preselection is often used with the opposite meaning in demoscene context, i.e. selecting entries not to be shown.
    • 2009, Evoke demoparty, Preselection‎:
      In compos which are potentially crammed like the music compos, preselection is a necessary evil. [...] 15-16 songs [...] are thus chosen to be played to the audience.
    • 2012, Demodays demoparty, General Rules (All Compos)‎:
      Every entry will be released [...], unless it was preselected/disqualified, or the competition was canceled.

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