The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word SELECTION
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More clues leading to the result SELECTION
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- Second vote choice
- Department carrying the French range
- Anthology in part written about how love begins and ends
- Choice area infiltrated by the Spanish
- Choice in polls comes after collecting freebies ultimately
- Choice of the French dividing piece
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The straight part
We know that "choice" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case choice = selection.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does SELECTION mean?
SELECTION noun- A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.
- The process or act of selecting.
- Something selected.
- A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
- A musical piece.
- A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
- The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. Wp
- A list of items on which user operations will take place. Wp
- A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
- The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. Wp
- The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. Wp