Chosen

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Chosen can mean:

• Chosen people, people who believe they have been chosen by a higher power to do a certain task.
• Chosen one, a list of fictional Chosen Ones or Messiahs from various works of fiction.

In Japanese:

• Joseon, a name for Korea.
• Chosen Army of Japan of the Imperial Japanese Army was responsible for the garrison of and operations on the Korean Peninsula during the Period of Japanese Rule.
• Chosen Soren is the name of an organization for ethnic Koreans living in Japan.

In Cryptanalysis it may refer to:

• Chosen-ciphertext attack is an attack model.
• Indifferent chosen-ciphertext attack is a form of chosen-ciphertext attack.
• Adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack is an interactive form of chosen-ciphertext attack.
• Chosen-plaintext attack is an attack model.

In Music:

• Chosen One is the second Hillsong Music album in the Youth Alive series by the Hillsong Church.

In Popular Culture it could be:

• The Chosen People (M*A*S*H episode) is an episode from the season of the television series M*A*S*H. (Chōsen is a Japanese name for Korea.)
• Chosen (Buffy episode), the finale episode of television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
• Chosen Realm (Enterprise episode) is an episode from the third season of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise.

It can refer to several books:

• The Chosen (Ricardo Pinto) (1999) is a fantasy novel by Ricardo Pinto, and also his first novel.
• The Chosen (Chaim Potok) is a novel by Chaim Potok published in 1967.
• Chosen Ame is an H dōjinshi series published by famed mangaka Kenichi Sonoda and his dōjinshi circle Ganso Sonoda Ya.

In Calvinism:

• "The Chosen" or"The Elect" are a group of people who are predestined to go to Heaven. This is part of the theory of predestination, a main principle of the Calvin belief's.