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selektiv — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • selective adj Choosing carefully rather than accepting everything or everyone.
  • stratified adj Arranged in a sequence of layers or strata.

Senses

selektiv is used for these senses in English:

  • selective (biology) Of or relating to natural selection.
  • stratified (sociology) Of a society, having a class structure.

selective — full definition

  1. adj Choosing carefully rather than accepting everything or everyone.
  2. adj Affecting or targeting only certain things rather than all of them.

stratified — full definition

  1. adj Arranged in a sequence of layers or strata.
  2. adj Of a society, having a class structure.
  3. adj Of a formula in New Foundations: such that there exists a kind of function from pieces of the formula's syntax to the natural numbers.

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