(medicine, psychology) an ability to remember some facts while apparently forgetting others, especially when they are inconvenient / the ability to retrieve certain facts and events but not others

(US, basketball) The Sunday in March on which the teams that participate in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament are selected.

plural of select agent

(US, law) A pathogen or biological toxin which has been declared to have the potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety.

A process in modelbuilding, in which bulky and/or repetitious elements of the prototype being modeled are omitted, in order to capture the important details in a smaller-than-scale model.

(evolutionary theory) A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.

(physics) Any of several general rules concerning the transitions between the states of a quantum mechanical system; they derive from the symmetry properties of the states and of their interactions

The tendency to interpret information in a way that supports what one already believes.

(firearms) The ability to choose whether a weapon fires automatically or semi-automatically.

(US, basketball) The Monday in March on which the teams that participate in the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament are selected.