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selectivity
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selectivity [sə‚lek′tiv·əd·ē]
(analytical chemistry)
The ability of a type of method or instrumentation to respond to a specified substance or constituent and not to others.
(electronics)
The ability of a radio receiver to separate a desired signal frequency from other signal frequencies, some of which may differ only slightly from the desired value.
The inverse of the shape factor of a bandpass filter.


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At the same time, they so far remain strictly unique accumulations of urban settlements and emphasize, much stronger than agglomerations, the selectiveness of the urbanization process, which builds up as settlement forms become more complicated.
I loved poetry's leaping interweave, the selectiveness of each magical word.
Another problem is that McGurn's reading of John Paul II is deeply flawed, exhibiting the selectiveness of so many neoconservative Catholics.
 
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