Selectivity

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Selectivity may refer to:

Psychology and behavior

• Choice, making a selection among options
• Discrimination, the ability to distinguish small differences
• Socioemotional selectivity theory, in social psychology

Engineering

• Selectivity (electronic), in radio transmission

Biology

• Binding selectivity, in pharmacology
• Functional selectivity, in pharmacology
• Natural selection, in biology

Chemistry

• Reactivity–selectivity principle, in general chemistry
• Chemoselectivity, a term used in organic chemistry to describe reactivity of one functional group in the presence of other groups
• Stereoselectivity, a term used in organic chemistry to describe the distribution of isomers in reaction products
• Regioselectivity, a term used in organic chemistry to describe reaction mechanisms and predict reaction products

Mathematics

• Sensitivity and specificity, in statistical theory

See also

• Select (disambiguation)
• Selection