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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Selector \Se*lect"or\, noun [L.] One who selects.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
selector
noun
1: a person who chooses or selects out [syn: {picker}, {chooser}]
2: a switch that is used to select among alternatives [syn: {selector switch}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
selector
1. In {Smalltalk} or {Objective C}, the {syntax} of a message which selects a particular {method} in the target {object}. 2. An operation that returns the state of an object but does not alter that state. Selector {functions} or {method}s often have names which begin with "get" and corresponding {modifier} methods or {procedures} whose names begin with "set". (1998-01-12)
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