Definition of "selector" in Englisch

noun

1. Someone or something which selects or chooses.

2. (cricket) An administrator responsible for selecting which players will play for a side.

3. (computing) A matching expression in a stylesheet determining which elements in the markup are affected by a style.

4. (computing) A pointer to a structure describing a segment of memory.

5. (Internet, historical) A text string transmitted to a Gopher server, identifying the resource to be retrieved.

   • Gopher selector strings are more liberal in makeup than URLs and may contain any characters other than a tab, return, or linefeed.

6. (music) A disc jockey.

7. (Australia, historical) A person who is entitled to choose a tract of Crown land to purchase.