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Definition of Selectors
1. selector [n] - See also: selector
Lexicographical Neighbors of Selectors
Literary usage of Selectors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Telephone Practice by Kempster Blanchard Miller (1905)
"selector, will be connected by trunks to second selectors adapted to extend
connections to subscribers having numbers beginning with 1000. ..."
2. The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center by Dorian J. Cougias, E. L. Heiberger, Karsten Koop (2003)
"You can now create custom selectors, save them, and export them to your other
... We'll post all of the custom selectors that we and our field editors ..."
3. Automatic Telephony: A Comprehensive Treatise on Automatic and Semi by Arthur Bessey Smith, Wilson Lee Campbell (1914)
"It has also second selectors for distributing calls to the different hundreds in the
... It has its own line switches, first selectors and connectors. ..."
4. Automatic Telephony: A Comprehensive Treatise on Automatic and Semi by Arthur Bessey Smith, Wilson Lee Campbell (1921)
"For instance, 15 trunks from 20 first selectors may be so arranged that there
will be five trunks individual to each group of 10 selectors and 5 trunks ..."
5. The Parliamentary Debates: Official Report by Northern Ireland Parliament. House of Commons (1898)
"... seeking as Minister of Lands to restrict selectors to a particular tenure,
which he, as Mr. John McKenzie, did not think good enough for his own family. ..."
6. Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South by Harriet W. Daly (1887)
"WHILE we were thus settling down to our new mode of life, the land selectors were
making preparations for their expedition to inspect the whole area of ..."
7. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"... The cochatoo settlers or free selectors fight desperately for the privilege
of picking out any piece of land they may fancy. ..."
8. A System of Physiologic Therapeutics: A Practical Exposition of the Methods by Solomon Solis-Cohen (1902)
"Selectors. Rheostats. Volt Controllers. Arrangement of Resistance in Circuit.
Reversers. Interrupters. Combiners. Measurement. ..."
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