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Sichtung — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • selection noun The act of choosing one or more things or people from a larger group.
  • sighting noun An instance of seeing something, especially something rare, unusual, or being searched for.
  • triage noun The process of sorting people or things by urgency or importance to decide what gets attention first.

Senses

Sichtung is used for these senses in English:

  • sighting The act of catching sight of something, especially something searched for.
  • triage Assessment or sorting according to quality, need, etc., especially to determine how resources will be allocated.

selection — full definition

  1. noun The act of choosing one or more things or people from a larger group.
  2. noun The thing or set of things chosen, or the range available to choose from.
  3. noun In biology, the process by which some organisms survive and reproduce more successfully than others, so that their traits become more common in a population.

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