Selector

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -É›ktÉ™(ɹ)

Origin

select + -or

Full definition of selector

Noun

1. Someone or something which selects or chooses different options.
1. (cricket) An administrator responsible for selecting which players will play for a side.
2. (internet) A matching expression in a stylesheet determining which elements in the markup are affected by a style.
3. (computing) A pointer to a structure describing a segment of memory.
• 1990, Byte (volume 15, issues 11-13, page 256)Phar Lap executables ... provide a protected-mode selector, 34h, that maps to the first megabyte of physical memory.
• 1995, Lary L. Myers, ‎Keith Weiskamp, Amazing 3-D games adventure set (page 235)You will only have to be concerned with DPMI, selectors, and such, if you use Borland C++ in DOS.

Anagrams

• corelets, corselet, electors, Electors, electros

Derived terms

• uniselector