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 thing
• Chosen one

In Japanese:

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

In cryptanalysis:

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

In music:

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

In television:

• "The Chosen People", a season 2 episode of the television series M*A*S*H
• "Chosen" (Buffy episode), the Series Finale of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• "Chosen Realm", an episode from the third season of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise

In literature:

• The Chosen (Ricardo Pinto), a fantasy novel by Ricardo Pinto
• 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
• The Chosen (Shannara) are the Elves given the duty of looking after the Ellcrys, the magical tree that holds the Demons behind the Forbidding to keep them from escaping into the world.

In Calvinism:

• The Chosen or The Elect, a group of people who are predestined to go to Heaven, part of the theory of predestination

In Elect-Tracking:

• The method initiated by William Douglas (DOB 1965-Springfield Ohio)of painstakingly referencing and cross-referencing every book of the bible (NIV, KJV, Interliniary, etc...)for elect passages, and the creation of the Electpedia; due out NLT 2010.